Bacon was the daughter of Larkin Crouch Bacon and Louisa Latimer. She was born in
Knox, Illinois, the eldest of her parents four children. She also had four other half siblings. Bacon attended North Abingdon High School and begun her college life at Hedding Collegiate Seminary. She graduated from
Hedding College in
Abingdon, Illinois, in 1886 with a bachelor's degree (the degree of PhB). She achieved a second bachelor's degree from
Wellesley College in 1890. Later, Bacon taught in a private school in Litchfield, Kentucky and in three different schools over seven years. Bacon studied for her master's degree at the
University of Chicago, completing her thesis in 1903 and graduating in September 1904, after six summers of study while continuing to work full time at the Woman's College of Baltimore. Her research in her master's and PhD theses was on
planar geometry. after working on the faculty from 1897 to 1934. Bacon was a member of the
American Mathematical Society and the
Mathematical Association of America. A student hall of residence at Goucher College, Bacon House, is named in her honour. She died on 14 April 1948, aged 81. == References ==