and Bacon to
Abraham Lincoln, forwarding resolutions of General Association of New York, 1864 Bacon graduated from
Yale University in 1856. He became minister of the Congregational Church in Orange, New Jersey, in 1861, and became a trustee of the
American Congregational Union in 1866. In 1875, he was again nominated as trustee of the board of regents of the Congregational Union, but publicly stated that he declined to serve on the board with
Henry C. Bowen; Bacon's father, Rev.
Leonard Woolsey Bacon, felt misrepresented enough by remarks made by Bowen that he wrote a letter to the
Chicago Tribune publicly disavowing any friendship with Bowen. In the same year, George Bacon delivered the commencement address at the
New York Medical College and Hospital for Women. Bacon, whom
The Nation called a "lively" writer, was a regular contributor to
Scribner’s Monthly, writing on religious). He also wrote on the
Sabbath question, an important subject in late-nineteenth century America when a debate was waged between those who saw the day of rest as a legal obligation and those, including Bacon, who considered it a Christian privilege. He died at age 40, on 15 September 1876, after a "lingering illness". In a eulogy,
Scribner’s Monthly called him a "model literary clergyman": "His contributions to the body of the magazine were always marked by broad views, intense dislike of sham and cant, by high moral purpose, and by a style as simple and direct as it was elegant and attractive." ==Bibliography==