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, as captain’s clerk and purser of the United States ship ” Portsmouth,” to Siam and China, and was absent from 1853 to 1858. He received from Yale College both degrees, A.B. and A.M., in 1866. From 1858 to 1860 he was a member of the Yale Theological Seminary, and from 1860 to 1861 of Andover Theological Seminary. In the last-mentioned year he was ordained pastor of the Orange Valley Church, N. J., which position he held until his death, Sept. 15,1876. He was vice-president of the American Missionary Association, a trustee of the American Congregational Union (1864-75), and a director of the American Home Missionary Society from 1872. Besides a large number of Sermons, he published The Land of the White Elephant (a volume on Siam), and other works. See Cong. Quarterly, 1877, p. 407.<\/p>\n
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”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}