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Peter C. Bacon

American mayor (1804-1886)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ7173120 ↗
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Peter Child Bacon (November 11, 1804 – February 7, 1886) was an attorney who served as the third Mayor of Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.

Biography

Bacon was born on November 11, 1804. He graduated from Brown University in 1827. Bacon studied law at the New Haven Law School, and with the law firm of Davis & Allen of Worcester.

In 1839, Bacon was admitted the bar at Worcester, County. He practiced law for two years in Dudley, Massachusetts and twelve years in Oxford, Massachusetts after which he moved to Worcester.

He was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1860.

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This entry incorporates text from “Peter C. Bacon” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.