Biography - DeWitt Clinton Bacon, M.D.
He was born in Oneida County, NY, on 23 April 1826. He is the son of Abner and Martha (Blackman) Bacon, the former of Dedham, MA, and the latter of NY. He was educated in the common and select schools, and in the Baptist Seminary at Clinton, NY. When not in school he labored in his father's shops or mills or on his farm in horticultural pursuits. He spent a year in Mississippi teaching and hunting. On his return he went to learn dentistry, which led to the study of medicine. He attended lectures at Geneva Medical College, then went to the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City, where he graduated in 1849. He came to Oneida, Illinois, in 1855. He married Louisa S. Knight in 1855 [the Illinois Statewide Marriage Index lists a Dr. M. C. Bacon marrying a Louisa S. Knight in Knox County on September 11, 1855]. Two sons and three daughters are the fruit of their union. Mrs. B. died 26 Feb 1871. Dr. B. moved his office to Galesburg in 1877.
Contributed by Joan Achille, extracted from the 1878 History of Knox County, Illinois, published by Charles C. Chapman
