History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with
Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious,
Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons
and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co.,
Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 849-850, Pleasant Township
J. W. Bacon, physician and surgeon, was born in this State Aug.
13, 1838; at 17 to 20 years of age he attended college; taught school;
graduated at Rush Medical College, Chicago, in 1869; has practiced
medicine since 1864; took special lessons in the East on diseases of
the chest, under the celebrated Dr. Jonesnay of N. Y.; married
Elizabeth J. Bailey Dec. 10, 1863, who was born in Illinois in 1841;
they have 3 children, - Alta, Charles E. and Mattie. He owns a valuable
piece of land near Ipava.
transcribed by Nan Krull
