Peter C. Bacon

Peter Child Bacon (November 11, 1804 February 7, 1886) was an attorney who served as the third Mayor of Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.

Peter Child Bacon
3rd Mayor of
Worcester, Massachusetts
In office
April 1, 1849[1]  April 7, 1851[1]
Preceded byHenry Chapin
Succeeded byJohn S.C. Knowlton
Majority668[1]
Personal details
Born(1804-11-11)November 11, 1804[1]
Dudley, Massachusetts[1]
DiedFebruary 7, 1886(1886-02-07) (aged 81)[1]
Political partyFree Soil[1]
Alma materBrown University; class of 1827[1]
ProfessionAttorney[1]

Biography

Bacon was born on November 11, 1804. He graduated from Brown University in 1827.[1][2] Bacon studied law at the New Haven Law School, and with the law firm of Davis & Allen of Worcester.[2]

In 1839, Bacon was admitted the bar at Worcester, County.[2] He practiced law for two years in Dudley, Massachusetts and twelve years in Oxford, Massachusetts after which he moved to Worcester.[2]

He was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1860.[3]

Notes

  1. Rice, Franklin Pierce (1899), Worcester of Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-Eight: Fifty Years A City : A Graphic Representation of Its Institutions, Industries, and Leaders, Worcester, Massachusetts: F.S. Blanchard and Company, p. 23
  2. Davis, William Thomas (1895), Bench and bar of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in Two Volumes, Vol. II, Boston, MA: The Boston History Company, p. 355
  3. American Antiquarian Society Members Directory
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