Biographical Sketch of Enos Ewing Bacon, St. Joseph, Buchanan County, MO

>From "History of Buchanan County, Missouri, Published 1881, St. Joseph
Steam Printing Company, Printers, Binders, Etc., St. Joseph, Missouri.
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Enos Ewing Bacon, proprietor Bacon House, was born in New Jersey,
March 17, 1823, and was raised a farmer.  He received a good educa-
tion and taught school for one year, and then went to Indiana and
taught school for nine years.  He bought a farm in Maryland and
worked it for six years, and afterwards sold out, and in 1860, came
to this city.  He bought the lot and a small building where the
Bacon House now stands and commenced keeping a boarding house and
grocery store.  In 1879, it was enlarged and opened as a hotel.  As
a hotel keeper he excels, as a citizen he has the confidence of all,
as an enterprising business man, he is regarded as a success.  He
has been a life-long, consisten Presbyterian, and has done much for
the church and its benevolence.  He married Miss Sarah E. Thomas in
1844.  They have seven children living:  William T., Charles F.,
Enos Ewing Jr., John Knox, Sarah E., Mary Anna and Rachel Ewing.

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