At the time of his death, Douglas County was part of Coles County, illinois.
George Wade Bacon was born Oct. 27, 1807 at Greenwich, N. J., He studied medicine. One of his instructors being his cousin, Dr. George Bacon Wood of Philadelphia, who was the author of Wood's Materia Mecia and other medical works. Dr. Bacon was in Natchaz, Miss. at the time of the great cholera plague and practiced his profession there. He was burned out and then came north, settling in the vicinity of Bourbon. He was a Quaker. (He was a land owner in Douglas County.) (Decatur Daily Review, Decatur, Macon Co., IL, 10 Sept. 1905)
George Wade Bacon was born Oct. 27, 1807 at Greenwich, N. J., He studied medicine. One of his instructors being his cousin, Dr. George Bacon Wood of Philadelphia, who was the author of Wood's Materia Mecia and other medical works. Dr. Bacon was in Natchaz, Miss. at the time of the great cholera plague and practiced his profession there. He was burned out and then came north, settling in the vicinity of Bourbon. He was a Quaker. (He was a land owner in Douglas County.) (Decatur Daily Review, Decatur, Macon Co., IL, 10 Sept. 1905)
At the time of his death, Douglas County was part of Coles County, illinois.
George Wade Bacon was born Oct. 27, 1807 at Greenwich, N. J., He studied medicine. One of his instructors being his cousin, Dr. George Bacon Wood of Philadelphia, who was the author of Wood's Materia Mecia and other medical works. Dr. Bacon was in Natchaz, Miss. at the time of the great cholera plague and practiced his profession there. He was burned out and then came north, settling in the vicinity of Bourbon. He was a Quaker. (He was a land owner in Douglas County.) (Decatur Daily Review, Decatur, Macon Co., IL, 10 Sept. 1905)
George Wade Bacon was born Oct. 27, 1807 at Greenwich, N. J., He studied medicine. One of his instructors being his cousin, Dr. George Bacon Wood of Philadelphia, who was the author of Wood's Materia Mecia and other medical works. Dr. Bacon was in Natchaz, Miss. at the time of the great cholera plague and practiced his profession there. He was burned out and then came north, settling in the vicinity of Bourbon. He was a Quaker. (He was a land owner in Douglas County.) (Decatur Daily Review, Decatur, Macon Co., IL, 10 Sept. 1905)
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