Peter C. Bacon | |
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3rd
Mayor of Worcester, Massachusetts | |
In office April 1, 1849 [1] – April 7, 1851 [1] | |
Preceded by | Henry Chapin |
Succeeded by | John S.C. Knowlton |
Majority | 668 [1] |
Personal details | |
Born | Peter Child Bacon November 11, 1804 [1] Dudley, Massachusetts [1] |
Died | February 7, 1886[1] | (aged 81)
Political party | Free Soil [1] |
Alma mater | Brown University; class of 1827 [1] |
Profession | Attorney [1] |
Peter Child Bacon (November 11, 1804 – February 7, 1886) was an attorney who served as the third Mayor of Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.
Bacon was born on November 11, 1804. He graduated from Brown University in 1827. [1] [2] Bacon studied law at the New Haven Law School, and with the law firm of Davis & Allen of Worcester. [2]
In 1839, Bacon was admitted the bar at Worcester, County. [2] He practiced law for two years in Dudley, Massachusetts and twelve years in Oxford, Massachusetts after which he moved to Worcester. [2]
He was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1860. [3]