NELSON A. BACON, a retired
lumber dealer of Old Lyme, Conn., was born in this town, May 7, 1841, a
son of Almond and Margaret S. (Clarke) Bacon. His grandfather, Mathew Bacon,
who was born in Middletown, Conn., in 1785, was a farmer and also proprietor
of the Bacon House, which he built about 1829, and carried on successfully
for a number of years. He was also a prominent Thompsonian doctor. He married
Rebecca Roberts, of Middletown; and they had five children, four of whom
grew to maturity. They were: Almond, Ebenezer, Daniel, Clara, and Lucretia.
Ebenezer, who was financially interested in steamboating, married, and
died at the age of thirty years. Daniel, after many years' service as captain
of a steamboat, retired with a competency, and resided subsequently in
Brooklyn, N.Y. He died at the age of forty-two years, leaving two
sons: Stephen H., who is unmarried, and resides in Brooklyn; and Daniel,
who is a broker in New York City, and has a family of two children. Clara
became the wife of Ebenezer L. Roberts, an architect.
Almond Bacon, father of the subject of this
sketch, also became captain of a steamboat and subsequently an agent for
a steamboat company. In 1864 he started in the lumber business, and soon
became known as one of the leading business men of the town. Six years
previously he had built the house in which he resided the remainder of
his life, and which is still standing. He was a Republican politically,
and served as Town Treasurer for a period of sixteen years. He was married
February 29, 1836, to Margaret S. Clarke, daughter of Abraham and Lura
(Champion) Clarke, of this town. They had one child, Nelson A. Almond Bacon
died in the fall of 1886, aged seventy-five years, and his wife in the
spring of 1889, aged seventy-four.
Nelson A. Bacon was educated in the schools
of his native town, at the select school of the Rev. Mr. Nichols, and at
the academy. He became associated with his father in the lumber business,
which they carried on until 1885, when it was closed out. In his politics
he is a Republican, but has never held public office. He has been a member
of the Baptist church for the past thirty years, and is now one of the
trustees. His mother was a member of the same church.
Biographical Review Volume
XXVI
Containing Life Sketches of Leading Citizens
of New London County Connecticut
Boston
Biographical Review Publishing Company
1898
pgs. 37 - 38
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