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Bacon, Phanuel an English. clergyman and writer, was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, became rector of Balden, and died in 1783. He published a volume of Humorous Ethics, Ballads, Songs, etc. See Allibone, Dict. of Brit. and Amer. Authors, s.v. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Bacon, Nathaniel (Southwell) (1598 -1676 ) Bibliographer, born Norfolk, England ; died Rome. Ordained, 1622 , he entered the Society of Jesus two years later, and became procurator and minister of the English College at Rome. Upon his retirement from the office of secretary to the general of the society, which he filled, 1647 -1668 … Continue reading “Bacon, Nathaniel”

Bacon, Leonard, D.D., LL.D an eminent Congregational divine, was born Feb. 19, 1802, at Detroit, Mich., where his father, David, was at the time missionary to the Indians. He graduated at Yale College in 1820, and at Andover Theological Seminary in 1824, and in March, 1825, he became pastor of the Central, or First, Congregational … Continue reading “Bacon, Leonard, D.D., LL.D”

Bacon, John (Johannes Anglicus, Johannes De Baconthorpe). An English Carmelite and theologian, born towards the end of the thirteenth century at the place in the county of Norfolk whence he derives his name; died in London, 1346. He is not to be confounded with Francis de Bachone, the Spanish Carmelite, reader of divinity in Paris … Continue reading “Bacon, John (3)”

Bacon, Joel Smith, D.D a distinguished Baptist minister. was born in Cavuga County, N.Y., Sept. 3,1802. Before entering college he was engaged in teaching in Amelia County, Va. He was a graduate of Hamilton College, Clinton, N. Y., in 1826, with the highest honors of his class. For a short time he was a teacher … Continue reading “Bacon, Joel Smith, D.D”

Bacon, James Monroe a Congregational minister, was born at Newton, Mass., Jan. 3, 1818. Having completed his preparatory course at Phillips Academy, Andover, in 1838, he turned his attention to the ministry. In 1841 he sailed for Savannah, Ga., thence to Europe, in consequence of impaired health. In December, 1843, he began to study with … Continue reading “Bacon, James Monroe”

Bacon, George W a Protestant Episcopal clergyman of the Diocese of New York, became in 1866 assistant minister of the Church of St. John Baptist, New York city, a position in which he remained until his death, which occurred Dec. 25, 1874. See Prot. Episc. Almanac, 1876, p. 149. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and … Continue reading “Bacon, George W”

Bacon, George Blagden, D.D a Congregational minister, son of Rev. Dr. Leonard Bacon, was born in New Haven, Conn., May 23, 1836. His preparatory studies were prosecuted in the Hopkins Grammar-school, New Haven, and afterwards he entered Yale College with the class of 1856. During his collegiate course, he took a voyage for his health, … Continue reading “Bacon, George Blagden, D.D”

Bacon, George an English. Wesleyan .minister, was born at Masborough, near Sheffield, in 1793.’ He was converted at the age of fifteen; entered the ministry in 1816; sustained an injury in November, 1832, which laid the foundation of a painful disease and terminated his life at Haworth, Feb. 24- 1835. See Minutes of the British … Continue reading “Bacon, George”

Bacon, Frederick Stanley a Universalist minister, was born at Middletown, Conn., May, 1831. He received a high-school education, graduated at St. Lawrence University in 1865. and was baptized and ordained at Nunda, N. Y., in 1868. He preached successively at Titusville, Pa., Nunda, and finally at Belfast, Me., where he died suddenly of apoplexy, Oct. … Continue reading “Bacon, Frederick Stanley”