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Author: Bacon, William Thompson

Biography:

Bacon, William Thompson (1812-1881: ancestry.com)

pseudonym Laurence Crichton

Some sources give 1814 as his date of birth but 1812 is well documented. Clergyman and journalist, born in Woodbury CT. Graduated from Yale in 1837 and contributed the valedictory poem for that year. Married to Elizabeth A. Knight (d 1886); they had four children. His last parish was in Derby CT. For some years he was one of the editors of The New Englander, then editor and proprietor of the New Haven Journal and Courier. A volume entitled Poems, published in 1837, reached a fourth edition in 1848. (WBIS 30 Oct. 2017; Appleton)

 

Other Names:

  • W. T. Bacon
 

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