Tuolumne County Biographies JOHN B. BACON Submitted by: Nancy Pratt Melton This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm Mr. Bacon, who is now President of the Tuolumne Re-�Union, was born in Warrington, Ohio, on the 7th September, 1836. In 1851, being then of the age of fifteen years, he removed with his parents to Terre Haute, Indiana, and after a residence of two years in that settlement came to California, landing in San Francisco in March of that year. For four years following he employed himself to min�ing, at the end of that time entering the service of Mr. O. L. Bemis, with whom he remained for ten years, acting also as Stage Agent for C. H. Sisson & Co , of Sonora. Mr. Bacon married Mrs. Johanna Meagher, a native of New Bedford, Massachusetts, the pair having their chil�dren: Dollie, Birdie, and George. As remarked above, Mr. Bacon is President of the Tuolumne Re-Union; and respecting this fact it may be well stated that that organization was founded in 1868, Mrs. Soderer, now of San Jose, and Mr. Dinsmore, of Oakland, being the originators. Its of each object is to give a picnic each year, whereat the present and former residents of the county of Tuolumne may gather for their mutual improvement and gratification. The plan of the founders has been faithfully adhered to for thirteen successive years. The society is organized by the choice of a President, Vice- President, Secretary, Treasurer, and Board of Trustees. Those of offices were held as follows during the past year: J. J. Vasconcellos, President, J. B. Bacon, Vice-President; W. L. Cunningham, Secretary; and H. M. Rosekrans, Treasurer. The Board of Trustees was composed of Daniel Sewell, G. W. McPherson, J. B. Bacon, J. A. Sampson, C.E. Blake, James L. Homer and J. A. Benham. The list of the past Presidents of the association (14 and number) is as follows: Dr. W. P. Gibbons 1869 C.E. McCasker 1870 J. M. Cavis 1871 W. G. Dinsmore 1872 Z. H. Cunningham 1873 L. P. McCarty 1874 James L. Homer 1875 Stephen Wing 1876 C. B. Rutherford 1877 H. M. Rosekrans 1878 C. E. Blake 1879 E.G. Jones 1880 Fred. Lux 1881 J. B. Bacon 1882 Through the kindness of Secretary Cunningham, the following list of members is presented, together with the dates of their arrival in Tuolumne County: Joseph Aldridge 1853 Joseph Armitage 1851 Thomas Ainsley 1852 Moses C. Andross 1860 B. F. Alley 1881 James Allen 1855 Oscar Allison 1850 L. L. Alexander 1849 Florin Antoniowich 1850 W. T. Arnold 1870 Chas. H. Arnold 1870 H. G. Austen 1849 Chas.E. Blake 1850 John B. Bacon 1853 David F. Baxter 1856 David M. Baldwin 1858 Marie L. Baldwin 1858 A.K. Benton 1850 P. B. Bacon 1853 John A. Benham 1854 Allen F. Bartlett 1851 Jas. H. Brooks 1854 A. C. Bradford 1849 Fred. Brown 1852 Henry Balch 1851 J. P. Banman 1858 Chas. I. Burks 1856 David B. Barclay 1877 Wm. H. Bruner 1851 S. Blaisdell 1849 Jno. A Brown 1854 John M. Buffington 1849 Z. H. Cunningham 1856 Thos. A Cochrane 1850 Chas H Chamberlain 1849 Susan G Chamberlain 1852 Wm. H Chamberlain 1855 James Craig 1850 John E. Cary 1849 William Cullinan 1852 O. P. Calloway 1850 Jos. M. Cavis 1856 R. A. Cunningham 1856 F.E. Chapin 1857 D. Cornel 1854 Wm. G. Dinsmore 1855 W. E. Dodge 1855 W. E. Dargie 1859 Wm. A. . Davies 1852 John Duffy 1850 John D. Bracy 1853 John B. Douglass 1853 Thomas Donnels 1850 James A. Dyer 1854 M. Dyer 1851 John Dunn 1854 M. Drascovich 1855 Peter Dean 1849 Chas. F. Dodge 1849 William Dunphy 1849 T. G. Detlow 1855 Geo. W. Dent 1852 W. A. Duchow 1854 J. G. Divoll 1862 Mrs. C. W. Drury 1856 T. L. Darling 1852 C. L. Ellis 1856 G. S. Evans 1849 T. J. Evans 1860 Chas. H. Eaton 1853 Robert Ferral 1854 Willard T. Fletcher 1853 William W. Fitzgerald 1852 John M.Faughnan 1849 John Ferral, Jr. 1854 John Ferral, Sr. 1854 Jas. A. Fuller 1850 O. P. Fitzgerald 1854 J. Folansbee 1854 W. P. Gamble -- -- Geo. W. B. Green 1853 W. P. Gibbons 1856 Wm. F. Goldsmith 1851 Wm. B. Goodwin 1853 Geo. Gros 1856 Robt. E. Gardner 1849 Walter Gallagher 1858 D. V. Gelcich 1854 M. G. Gillet 1857 Edwin Grady 1855 John H. Grady 1855 Charles E. Hunt 1862 George A. Hildreth 1850 Conrad Hildebrand 1852 John R. Hicks 1851 James L. Homer 1849 Allen Heald 1851 H. S. Hildreth 1851 George Hanna 1855 Frank O. Hancock 1860 John K. Hunter 1853 William F. Hassell 1849 John Van Harlingen 1849 J. H. Hurd 1855 Thomas C. Hogan 1852 D. W. Houlton 1851 Robert How 1853 Charles E. Hatch 1851 George Hager 1849 Henry Harter 1851 W. N. Harris 1850 J. M. Haskell 1856 George H. H. Haskell 1856 Francis C. Haskell 1857 Andrew J. Hatch 1852 P. J. Ipsen 1852 E. G. Jones 1856 E. O. Judd 1851 Antone Johanismann 1858 Sewell A. Knapp 1854 Lewis Koster 1849 Thomas Kent 1850 Charles H. Klein -- -- John T. Kelley 1858 H. H. Knight 1852 John E. Klein 1855 Herbert O. Lang 1880 Joel Libby 1851 A. B. Lawson 1855 Frederick Lux 1846 Thomas B. Lucas 1856 Morris Louisson 1854 Louis Levy -- -- Herman R. Lenz 1852 E. G. Lyons 1852 Peter Lesher 1854 W. H. Love 1852 John E. Magary 1850 C. B. McDonald 1855 Thomas J. Mattison -- -- C. E. McCusker 1856 W. P. Morehouse 1852 Mrs Margaret Mehen 1850 C. L. R. Malt -- -- C. L. Metzger 1855 George II Morton 1852 A. D. Miesegaer 1853 L. P. McCarty 1861 E. W. Marsten 1852 M. T. McPherson -- -- H. G. Mason 1849 George W. McPherson -- -- Daniel Mullen 1858 E. W. Nottage 1849 Leonard W Noyes 1852 Benjamin C Northrap 1851 Charles B. Northrap 1854 N. M. Orr 1856 A. W. Prevost 1850 Henry Palmer 1849 Abner Pitts 1849 Robert C. Patton 1852 J. Henry Peters 1851 M. W. Parsons 1852 Ed. Parsons 1856 L. Quint 1850 P. B. Quinlan 1857 C. B. Rutherford 1852 C. H. Randall 1851 H. M. Rosekrans 1852 V. R. Raymond 1849 Elizabeth Raymond 1854 W. H. Rulofson 1850 Isaac Ripperdan 1851 Frank A. Rutherford 1854 J. C. Rouse 1853 George Reed 1851 Mrs. M. E. Riordan 1850 George Roddan 1852 John A. Roy 1854 George H. Rogers 1849 Charles M. Radcliff 1849 R. A. Robinson 1853 J. W. Ricard 1849 A.C. Rulofson 1853 Theodore Reiser 1856 Charles L. Stone 1849 H. S. Stone 1852 W. L. Sears 1861 J. T. Smith 1850 Patrick Smith 1851 Henry Schuler 1859 Abraham Sharp 1855 James B. Stetson 1852 Peter H. Snyder 1849 G. Sutkey -- -- Mrs. N. N Soderer 1858 N. Soderer 1849 J. A. Sampson 1852 W. H. Smith 1849 C. C. P Severance 1852 Charles W Severance 1855 John Sedgwick 1850 George Schirra 1849 P. F. Scott 1854 F. Sellman 1850 Daniel Sewell 1859 Charles Schwilk -- -- Gus Soderer 1859 Lyman C. Tibbits 1850 Albert H. Tobey 1860 Gideon Thompson 1852 Charles D. Turner 1865 Charles B. Turner -- -- James Taylor, Jr. -- -- Joseph J Vasconcellos 1856 G. J. Van Vlack 1869 J.F. Wagner 1850 Stephen Wing 1853 Isabella M. Wing 1856 Charles C. Wheeler 1857 J. J. White 1856 Peter R Woodman 1852 Charles M. Weber 1841 R. K. Weston 1855 T. P. Wales 1853 W. Wyckoff 1852 Charles S. Wright 1852 Allen Wildes -- -- A. C. J. Wilson 1852 T. M. Yancey 1850 �A History of Tuolumne Co, CA� B.F. Alley, 1882. Appendix pg. 39-43.