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 651, Farmers' Township
Dr. A. J. Bacon was born in McDonough Co., Ill., Sept. 23, 1836;
received a common-school education; reared on a farm until he was 21
years old, when he began reading medicine; in the winter of 1859-60
attended the Eclectic Medical College of Cincinnati, O.; in March,
1860, he began the practice of medicine, locating in Ipava, where he
remained one year, and then removed to Table Grove, where he has since
practiced with good success. He graduated at the Rush Medical College
in Chicago in 1865. He married, in 1857, Miss M. Durham, by whom he had
one daughter, Carrie, now the wife of John Leonard, of this place. Mrs.
Bacon died in 1860, and Mr. B. married again May 4, 1863, and they have
one child, Nellie, now 13 years of age. Mr. Bacon’s father, Charles
Bacon, was one of the first settlers in McDonough county, and like
others, suffered many hardships and privations in paving the way for
the future prosperity of their family.
Note: 1st wife, Mariam Durham married February 25, 1858 Fulton
County, Illinois. Second wife was Martha Miner, married May 04, 1865
Fulton County, Illinois.
