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(Page 567 and 568)William Bacon was born in Greenwich, Cumberland Co., N. J., June 20, 1802. His parents died during his childhood. Possessing a patrimony, he acquired an English education, and made proficiency in some of the higher branches of learning. He began the study of medicine under the tuition of Dr. Daniel Bowen, of Woodstown, and attended lectures at the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 1822, at the age of twenty. He commenced the practice at Allowaystown, Salem Co., in the same year, and was married in January 1823, to a Miss Ray of Philadelphia.
He continued the practice of medicine until within a few days of his death, and gently fell asleep, February 26, 1868, in the sixty-sixth year of age.
