The Biographical Dictionary of America/Bacon, Edmund

BACON, Edmund, lawyer, was born in Virginia, January, 1776. When very young he attended school at Augusta, Ga., and while yet a boy delivered, at the request of the citizens, an address of greeting to Washington, who was passing through the city. This youthful effort won praise from the citizens and a gift of a number of law books from Washington. After studying law in Litchfield, Conn., he was admitted to the bar, and began to practise in Savannah, Ga. He won a large and lucrative practice, and a reputation as a sound, skillful lawyer. He was employed as attorney in settling the estate of Gen. Nathaniel Greene, near Savannah. Later he removed to Edgefield, S. C, where he remained the rest of his life. He was a man of delightful personality, and was as popular in private life as in his profession. He died at Edgefield, S. C., Feb. 2, 1826.