Married
Address: 101 Rugby Rd.
Father: John Bacon
Mother: Harriet Smith
Spouse: Harriet Schroter (Hannibal, MO) (m. 1886)
Occupation: Lawyer
Cremation: 1920-06-02
Case #21105
Cert #13311
Remains interred:
Woodlawn Cemetery, Canandaigua, NY
The following biography published in the Monday 31 May 1920 edition of The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, page 4, column 4:
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ALEXANDER S. BACON.
A remarkable composite: military man hating militarism, churchman condemning narrowness; politician scorning politics; idealist in the most material sense, was Colonel Alexander S. Bacon, lawyer, orator, Masonic lecturer, West Pointer and Municipal Leaguer. Brooklyn had come to know him, and to allow for his individual angles of vision, his trend toward the hyperbole of satire, his native iconoclasm. We all knew him as sincerely a good man and a good citizen. And his passing will be mourned by large numbers of friends.
A native of Michigan, an 1876 graduate of the Military Academy, a close student of strategy and tactics, a practical fighter on the Oklahoma border and in the strike disturbances of 1877, he left the Army to learn law and be admitted to the Bar. Elected to the Legislature in 1887, he came to be called "the Puritan of the Assembly," and was proud of it. His defiant invasion of John Y. McKane's bailiwick on a famous Election Day, the bailiwick in which all elections were personally conducted, is historic. He spent three hours in the Town Hall jail in Gravesend, but McKane spent a term of years in Sing Sing.
Very useful was Colonel Bacon to the Twenty-third Regiment and to the National Guard of the State. But he was a born controversialist, and after the Spanish War his hot defense of the Seventy-first Regiment led him into a fierce attack on Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. He was supporting Bryan for President. His ties with the Republican Party had been broken. He renewed the assault on Roosevelt when the latter was President over the discharge of colored soldiers at Brownsville. He was never reconciled to Colonel Roosevelt.
Colonel Bacon's pamphlet, "The Military Preparedness of a Giant," was published in 1916, before we entered the war. To some critics it seemed that this had been rendered partly obsolete by our war experience. But its central idea is close to what keen thinkers are now looking forward to in the way of military defense by universal school training: "Our schools would, in a single generation, convert every American into a citizen soldier, ready to die for the right, and too conscientious to fight for the wrong. The people should be encouraged in the use of our military rifles."
Such a man may not always be temperate or judicial in his view, judicious in his selection of weapons and lines of attack, but he is always interesting and never without a certain following. The reason for this lies in sincerity that cannot be counterfeited and cannot be hidden. Sincerity warms others, in spite of themselves. It appeals to what is best in them. It was the chief charm of Colonel Alexander S. Bacon.
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Address: 101 Rugby Rd.
Father: John Bacon
Mother: Harriet Smith
Spouse: Harriet Schroter (Hannibal, MO) (m. 1886)
Occupation: Lawyer
Cremation: 1920-06-02
Case #21105
Cert #13311
Remains interred:
Woodlawn Cemetery, Canandaigua, NY
The following biography published in the Monday 31 May 1920 edition of The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, page 4, column 4:
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ALEXANDER S. BACON.
A remarkable composite: military man hating militarism, churchman condemning narrowness; politician scorning politics; idealist in the most material sense, was Colonel Alexander S. Bacon, lawyer, orator, Masonic lecturer, West Pointer and Municipal Leaguer. Brooklyn had come to know him, and to allow for his individual angles of vision, his trend toward the hyperbole of satire, his native iconoclasm. We all knew him as sincerely a good man and a good citizen. And his passing will be mourned by large numbers of friends.
A native of Michigan, an 1876 graduate of the Military Academy, a close student of strategy and tactics, a practical fighter on the Oklahoma border and in the strike disturbances of 1877, he left the Army to learn law and be admitted to the Bar. Elected to the Legislature in 1887, he came to be called "the Puritan of the Assembly," and was proud of it. His defiant invasion of John Y. McKane's bailiwick on a famous Election Day, the bailiwick in which all elections were personally conducted, is historic. He spent three hours in the Town Hall jail in Gravesend, but McKane spent a term of years in Sing Sing.
Very useful was Colonel Bacon to the Twenty-third Regiment and to the National Guard of the State. But he was a born controversialist, and after the Spanish War his hot defense of the Seventy-first Regiment led him into a fierce attack on Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. He was supporting Bryan for President. His ties with the Republican Party had been broken. He renewed the assault on Roosevelt when the latter was President over the discharge of colored soldiers at Brownsville. He was never reconciled to Colonel Roosevelt.
Colonel Bacon's pamphlet, "The Military Preparedness of a Giant," was published in 1916, before we entered the war. To some critics it seemed that this had been rendered partly obsolete by our war experience. But its central idea is close to what keen thinkers are now looking forward to in the way of military defense by universal school training: "Our schools would, in a single generation, convert every American into a citizen soldier, ready to die for the right, and too conscientious to fight for the wrong. The people should be encouraged in the use of our military rifles."
Such a man may not always be temperate or judicial in his view, judicious in his selection of weapons and lines of attack, but he is always interesting and never without a certain following. The reason for this lies in sincerity that cannot be counterfeited and cannot be hidden. Sincerity warms others, in spite of themselves. It appeals to what is best in them. It was the chief charm of Colonel Alexander S. Bacon.
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Married
Address: 101 Rugby Rd.
Father: John Bacon
Mother: Harriet Smith
Spouse: Harriet Schroter (Hannibal, MO) (m. 1886)
Occupation: Lawyer
Cremation: 1920-06-02
Case #21105
Cert #13311
Remains interred:
Woodlawn Cemetery, Canandaigua, NY
The following biography published in the Monday 31 May 1920 edition of The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, page 4, column 4:
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ALEXANDER S. BACON.
A remarkable composite: military man hating militarism, churchman condemning narrowness; politician scorning politics; idealist in the most material sense, was Colonel Alexander S. Bacon, lawyer, orator, Masonic lecturer, West Pointer and Municipal Leaguer. Brooklyn had come to know him, and to allow for his individual angles of vision, his trend toward the hyperbole of satire, his native iconoclasm. We all knew him as sincerely a good man and a good citizen. And his passing will be mourned by large numbers of friends.
A native of Michigan, an 1876 graduate of the Military Academy, a close student of strategy and tactics, a practical fighter on the Oklahoma border and in the strike disturbances of 1877, he left the Army to learn law and be admitted to the Bar. Elected to the Legislature in 1887, he came to be called "the Puritan of the Assembly," and was proud of it. His defiant invasion of John Y. McKane's bailiwick on a famous Election Day, the bailiwick in which all elections were personally conducted, is historic. He spent three hours in the Town Hall jail in Gravesend, but McKane spent a term of years in Sing Sing.
Very useful was Colonel Bacon to the Twenty-third Regiment and to the National Guard of the State. But he was a born controversialist, and after the Spanish War his hot defense of the Seventy-first Regiment led him into a fierce attack on Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. He was supporting Bryan for President. His ties with the Republican Party had been broken. He renewed the assault on Roosevelt when the latter was President over the discharge of colored soldiers at Brownsville. He was never reconciled to Colonel Roosevelt.
Colonel Bacon's pamphlet, "The Military Preparedness of a Giant," was published in 1916, before we entered the war. To some critics it seemed that this had been rendered partly obsolete by our war experience. But its central idea is close to what keen thinkers are now looking forward to in the way of military defense by universal school training: "Our schools would, in a single generation, convert every American into a citizen soldier, ready to die for the right, and too conscientious to fight for the wrong. The people should be encouraged in the use of our military rifles."
Such a man may not always be temperate or judicial in his view, judicious in his selection of weapons and lines of attack, but he is always interesting and never without a certain following. The reason for this lies in sincerity that cannot be counterfeited and cannot be hidden. Sincerity warms others, in spite of themselves. It appeals to what is best in them. It was the chief charm of Colonel Alexander S. Bacon.
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Address: 101 Rugby Rd.
Father: John Bacon
Mother: Harriet Smith
Spouse: Harriet Schroter (Hannibal, MO) (m. 1886)
Occupation: Lawyer
Cremation: 1920-06-02
Case #21105
Cert #13311
Remains interred:
Woodlawn Cemetery, Canandaigua, NY
The following biography published in the Monday 31 May 1920 edition of The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, page 4, column 4:
---------------------------------------
ALEXANDER S. BACON.
A remarkable composite: military man hating militarism, churchman condemning narrowness; politician scorning politics; idealist in the most material sense, was Colonel Alexander S. Bacon, lawyer, orator, Masonic lecturer, West Pointer and Municipal Leaguer. Brooklyn had come to know him, and to allow for his individual angles of vision, his trend toward the hyperbole of satire, his native iconoclasm. We all knew him as sincerely a good man and a good citizen. And his passing will be mourned by large numbers of friends.
A native of Michigan, an 1876 graduate of the Military Academy, a close student of strategy and tactics, a practical fighter on the Oklahoma border and in the strike disturbances of 1877, he left the Army to learn law and be admitted to the Bar. Elected to the Legislature in 1887, he came to be called "the Puritan of the Assembly," and was proud of it. His defiant invasion of John Y. McKane's bailiwick on a famous Election Day, the bailiwick in which all elections were personally conducted, is historic. He spent three hours in the Town Hall jail in Gravesend, but McKane spent a term of years in Sing Sing.
Very useful was Colonel Bacon to the Twenty-third Regiment and to the National Guard of the State. But he was a born controversialist, and after the Spanish War his hot defense of the Seventy-first Regiment led him into a fierce attack on Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. He was supporting Bryan for President. His ties with the Republican Party had been broken. He renewed the assault on Roosevelt when the latter was President over the discharge of colored soldiers at Brownsville. He was never reconciled to Colonel Roosevelt.
Colonel Bacon's pamphlet, "The Military Preparedness of a Giant," was published in 1916, before we entered the war. To some critics it seemed that this had been rendered partly obsolete by our war experience. But its central idea is close to what keen thinkers are now looking forward to in the way of military defense by universal school training: "Our schools would, in a single generation, convert every American into a citizen soldier, ready to die for the right, and too conscientious to fight for the wrong. The people should be encouraged in the use of our military rifles."
Such a man may not always be temperate or judicial in his view, judicious in his selection of weapons and lines of attack, but he is always interesting and never without a certain following. The reason for this lies in sincerity that cannot be counterfeited and cannot be hidden. Sincerity warms others, in spite of themselves. It appeals to what is best in them. It was the chief charm of Colonel Alexander S. Bacon.
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