Contra Costa-Amador County CA Archives Biographies.....Bacon, Samuel S. 1833 - 
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Author: W. A. & Slocum & Co. (1882)

SAMUEL S. BACON.—The subject of this sketch, whose portrait will be found in the
present work, is the son of Stephen and Hannah (Pshaw) Bacon, and was born in
Barre, Worcester county, Massachusetts, October 26, 1833. Here he attended the
common schools and resided until he reached the age of eighteen years. At this
epoch in his life, Mr. Bacon started for California, setting out July 5, 1851,
going by public conveyance as far as Winnebago county, Illinois, where he had
friends; and while visiting them prepared for the overland trip by ox-team,
leaving there with one J. Dixon, March 20, 1852, arriving at Council Bluffs May
10th, where a company under Dr. Davenport, comprising one hundred and
thirty-eight persons, left May 15th, going via Fort Bridger and Salt Lake, and
arrived at Volcano, Amador county, California, August 25, 1852. Mr. Bacon worked
in the mines until May 1, 1853, when he turned his attention to agriculture,
selecting Contra Costa county therefor, arriving on the Government Ranch, then
occupied by Majors Allen and Loring. In the year 1855, Mr. Bacon pre-empted a
quarter-section of land at Bay Point, where he remained until 1860, at which
time he removed to the town of Pacheco and opened a fruit and stationery store.
Owing to the continued annual floods in that town, our subject concluded to
change his location, and selected the new town of Concord, which had then been
just laid out, moved thereto, erected and occupied the first business building
in that now prosperous village. There Mr. Bacon still resides, transacting a
large and profitable trade, and performing, as well, the duties of postmaster,
to which position he was appointed March 28, 1872, and Notary Public for the
last eight years. He has seven children: William, Sarah, Edward, Annie, Adeline,
Florence and Clara.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

HISTORY OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY,
CALIFORNIA,
INCLUDING ITS GEOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY, TOPOGRAPHY, CLIMATOGRAPHY AND DESCRIPTION;
TOGETHER WITH A RECORD OF THE MEXICAN GRANTS; THE BEAR FLAG WAR; THE MOUNT
DIABLO COAL FIELDS; THE EARLY HISTORY AND SETTLEMENT, COMPILED FROM THE MOST
AUTHENTIC SOURCES; THE NAMES OF ORIGINAL SPANISH AND MEXICAN PIONEERS; FULL
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; SEPARATE HISTORY OF EACH TOWNSHIP, SHOWING
THE ADVANCE IN POPULATION AND AGRICULTURE;
ALSO,
Incidents of Pioneer Life; and Biographical Sketches
OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
AMD OF ITS TOWNS, VILLAGES, CHURCHES, SECRET SOCIETIES, ETC.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO: W. A. SLOCUM & CO., PUBLISHERS
1882.


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