Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Bacon, Warren H. 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

Bacon, Warren H., Dolgeville, was born in Oppenheim.  He received his 
education in the Fairfield Seminary, Clinton Liberal Institute, and the 
Cazenovia Seminary, and commenced the study of law in the office of Judge 
Keck, of Johnstown.  After three years therein, and upon the death of his 
father, he left his studies to settle up the estate of his family.  Mr. Bacon 
was elected supervisor of the town of Oppenheim in 1878, 1879, 1880, and in 
1883, being chairman of the board for two terms.  He is at present trustee of 
the village of Dolgeville, justice of the peace of the town of Oppenheim, 
district deputy of the I.O.O.F., member of the Royal Arcanum, and identified 
with all social and benevolent institutions.  He owns the old homestead of 120 
acres of dairy land in Oppenheim.  Mr. Bacon's ancestors on his father's side 
came from Dudley, Mass., in 1819, and settled there.  His great-grandfather, 
Jonathan Bacon, was a soldier in the Revolution.  His grandfather was Jonathan 
Bacon, jr., and his father was George H. Bacon.  On his mother's side he is 
descended from the Davis family, who came to Massachusetts, or Maine, in 1642, 
of English parentage.


Additional Comments:
source:
History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of 
its citizens
edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard
Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893
550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports.


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