1914 Delaware County History pgs. 474-476
Curtis Bacon
I. C.
Bacon, living in Union township, was born December 2, 1841, in Marietta, Washington county, Ohio. His father, Isaac Bacon, was a
native of the state of New York, born July 8, 1807, and, having arrived at years of
manhood, he wedded Ann Taylor, who was born in Lancashire, England, March 7,
1807. They
became parents of two sons, John Louis and I. C. The former, born September
4, 1836,
died in 1914, in Union township, in the home of his brother, I. C., with whom
he lived after the death of his wife, Hattie Andrews. He was married twice and
had children by both marriages, three of whom are now alive, Charles, Mary
Flanagan and Speda Rogers. It was in the year 1854
that Isaac Bacon removed from Ohio to Iowa, settling in Union township, Delaware county,
where he purchased one hundred and sixty acres of land.
I. C. Bacon
always remained at home with his father and, being the only heir, inherited the
estate, to which he has since added one hundred and twenty acres, so that his
farm now comprises two hundred and eighty acres of rich and productive land.
The father died December 5, 1879, and the mother passed away on the
23d of April, 1896.
On the
5th of October, 1865, Mr. Bacon was united in marriage to Miss Eliza G. Hogg,
who was born
September 29, 1845, in Hawesville, Kentucky, a daughter of
Robert and Charlotte (Woarley) Hogg, the former a native
of Kentucky and the latter of
Indiana. They were married in the Hoosier
state and, removing westward, reached Union township, Delaware county, Iowa, April 16,
1846. They
were the first settlers of the township and Mrs. Bacon was at that time six
months old. They took up their abode in the timber and built a log house, Mr.
Hogg keeping a store in one corner of the building and conducting a gunsmith
shop in another corner. He manufactured guns at a period when they were largely
needed both for the hunt and for use against unfriendly Indians. In the Hogg
family were twelve children, of whom four died in infancy. The others were:
Eliza, now Mrs. Bacon; Ann, who by her first marriage to Edward Garrison had
eleven children and since the death of her first husband has become the wife of
a Mr. Huygens; James Harvey, proprietor of a restaurant in Kansas, who married
Emma Berlin and has six children; Milton, a farmer of Nebraska, who has been
married twice and had two children by his first marriage and eight by the
second; Oren, who is working in a vineyard in California and is married and has
two children; Caroline, who became the wife of Paul Berlin and died in 1909,
while of her fourteen children eight are now living; Verona, the wife of John
Welch, a lawyer of Monticello, Iowa, by whom she has three children; and Otis,
a farmer who died in 1896.
Mr. and
Mrs. Bacon became the parents of eight children. Charlotte Ann, the eldest,
born June 26, 1866, was married September
17, 1884,
to Edward Porter, a farmer of Deer Creek, Minnesota, and they have become parents of
fourteen children, of whom twelve are yet living. They also have one
grandchild, making Mr. and Mrs. Bacon great-grandparents. Isaac Robert, born December
7, 1867, is
operating his father's farm. Minnie, born March 13, 1869, is the wife of Evan Dufoe, and they have three children and one grandchild.
Nellie, born January 14, 1871, is the wife of Melvin Dolley, a cement worker at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and they have five children and
two grandchildren. James Milton, born December 19, 1874, and now cultivating a farm
adjoining his father's, married Miss Lillie Barker and they have three children.
Kitty Irene, born October 19, 1876, is the wife of William Myers, of
Hopkinton, and they had one child. Fanny, born January 14,
1882, is
the wife of Byron Smith, a farmer of Union township, and they have two children.
Charles, born March 10, 1887, is connected with his brother in operating
the home farm. He wedded Miss Eveline Orr and they
have three children, Vera, Harvey and Neva, aged eight, six and five years respectively.
Mr. Bacon
has been school director and township trustee. He has been a hard worker all
his life and his industry, determination and careful management have won him a
place among the substantial farmers of Union township. When Mrs. Bacon 's parents came here there was not a house between
their home and Delhi and on the trail to Anamosa there was but one house.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Bacon, therefore, are representatives of old pioneer families
and have themselves witnessed much of the development and progress of the
county leading to its present prosperity.
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