Portrait and biographical record of Orange county, New York, Containing portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the countyTogether with biographies and portraits of all the presidents of the United States . f whom grewto mature years. Mr. Bacon received superior educational ad-vantages, his preliminary education being re-ceived at the Episcopal Academy of Connecticut,at Cheshire, until 1862. Later he entered theSophomore class of Union College, from which hewas duly graduated in 1865 with the degree ofBachelor of Arts, and three years later had theadditi
Portrait and biographical record of Orange county, New York, Containing portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the countyTogether with biographies and portraits of all the presidents of the United States . f whom grewto mature years. Mr. Bacon received superior educational ad-vantages, his preliminary education being re-ceived at the Episcopal Academy of Connecticut,at Cheshire, until 1862. Later he entered theSophomore class of Union College, from which hewas duly graduated in 1865 with the degree ofBachelor of Arts, and three years later had theadditional honor of Master of Arts conferred uponhim. He still keeps up his membership with thecollege Phi Beta Kappa society. When onlytwenty years of age he took up the study of lawunder Hon. D. F. Gedney, who was then CountyJudge of Orange County. He argued his firstcase before the Supreme Court in February, 1867,before he had attained his majority, and continuedin practice alone until 1869, when he formed apartnership with B. F. Duryea, under the title ofDurj-ea & Bacon. At the end of seven or eightyears the partnership was dissolved by mutualconsent, and Mr. Bacon contiiuied alone in prac-tice until he was elected to Congress, when, in. GEORGE TALMAN WISNEK.
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