The Biographical Dictionary of America/Bacon, Leonard Woolsey

BACON, Leonard Woolsey, clergyman, was born in New Haven, Conn., Jan. 1, 1830; son of Leonard Bacon, pastor of First church, New Haven. He studied at Yale college, where he was graduated in 1850, and then pursued a course in theology at both Andover and Yale, and medicine at Yale college, being given his M. D. degree in 1856. He preached in Congregational and Presbyterian churches in Rochester. N. Y., Stamford, Conn., Brooklyn, N. Y.. and Baltimore, Md. He then spent five years in European travel, and in 1879 became pastor of the Park Congregational church, Norwich, Conn. In 1885 he was chosen pastor of the Woodland Presbyterian church, Philadelphia, Pa., and afterwards had pastoral charge of the Ancient Independent church. Savannah, Ga., for several months, returning in December, 1887, to Norwich, Conn. His published works include: "The Life, Speeches, and Discourses of Father Hyacinthe" (1872); "Church Papers" (1876); "The Vatican Council" (1872); "A Life Worth Living: Life of Emily Bliss Gould" (1878); "Sunday Observance and Sunday Law" (1882); "The Hymns of Martin Luther" (1883); "The Church Book: Hymns and Tunes" (1883), and "The Simplicity that is in Christ" (sermons, 1886). Yale college gave him his S. T. D. in 1879.