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ert I... Mary, who married Louis
Rauschkolb; Frank Frederick, of whom
further; Jaj W. The mother was a member
t" tlir Methodisl Episcopal church.
Frank Frederick Bacon was born in
Sherman, New York, March 5. [873. He
was educated in the public schools of
Springfield, Pennsylvania, then wont to
Nortl ivesl Montana, where he worked on
cattle ranges for eight years. After that
he removed to Chicago, and entered the
employ of Nelson Morris, as a cattle shipper
in their stock yards. Then he came
to Middletown, Connecticut, and was in
the employ of Kennedy, the truckman,
for six or seven years. About fifteen
years ago he came to Hartford and en-
tered the employ of Bill Brothers, car
m< n, and went from them to the Sherman
Transfer Company. Five years ago, hav-
ing laid aside a little from his years of
stead}' work and thrifty habits, and appre-
ciating the possibilities offered by the
rapid growth of the city, he formed a
partnership with George L. Whitaker,
and started a general trucking business.
In this short time the business has grown
to large proportions. They have fortytwo
head of horses and four fine automo-
bile trucks, which are all kept busy the
greater part of the time. The firm are
familiar with the needs of the public
along these lines; they are prompt and
obliging, and believe in carrying the
policy of quality into a business whether
it be a manufacturing, mercantile or pub-
lic service enterprise.
Mr. Bacon married Nellie Gertrude
Larkin, of Middletown, Connecticut, and
they have one child, Lester A., born June
17, 1898, and who is now serving in the
Three Hundred and Twenty-sixth Field
Signal Battalion with the Army of Occu-
pation.
Mr. Bacon is a man of genial disposi-
tion, sturdv manhood, with a cheerful out-
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look on life ami its interests. I| r makes
friends as well a- helpers of Ids employ 1
and holds a high standard <
.f character as
well as efficiency in his dealings with
them. He is a public-spirited man. inter-
ested in the good of the city, and well informed
on all questions of local, national
and international interest.
ALCOTT, Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Physician.
New England is justly famous for citizens
who have won recognition—in the
world of art and letters, in the professions
and in the industries. From the pine
wo^.ls of Maine to the section which now
prides itself on being the suburb of the
metropolis, town after town, and city
after city points with pride to names
which have become of more than local
significance; modest, retiring citi/.ens who
have followed the call of their ideals, who
have ministered to the spiritual and
esthetic longings of their fellows, who
have administered large affairs and cre-
ated industries which have become the
means of sustenance for countless thousands
; men whose achievements have
revolutionized industry; women whose
faces are enshrined in the hearts of loving
admirers, and whose words have not only
given pleasure, but have pointed out the
high path of honor to youth.
Working for the good of humanity in
the rank and file of public service, are
many men, who deservedly enjoy the con-
fidence of their fellow-citizens, but disre-
gard the allurements of a wider fame to
meet the every-day needs of the people.
The bonds of service unite these two
groups in a common brotherhood. There
is no profession so exacting, none demanding
such unreservim; self-sacrifice,
as that of a physician. And it is only just
and fair to accord to the man who fulfills