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Re: Biographical info on Georgetown College president



Go to this website for the George Washington University.  Bacon was president
of GW after Georgetown, apparently.
http://www.hfni.gsehd.gwu.edu/~archives/gwupres_.htm

I'm sure you can find out quite a bit using just the search engines
"dogpile.com" and "google.com"  Also GW has a photograph of Bacon at this web
page.

Good luck
Margaret Shannon (formerly of Paris, KY and alumna of Transylvania College)
Curator (volunteer)
Cathedral Rare Book Library
Washington National Cathedral
mshannon@cathedral.org
ShannonRBL@aol.com


Joel Smith Bacon
1843-54 Martin Van Buren's first term as President of the United States had
been severely damaged by the financial panic of 1837, and he failed in his
1840 bid for re-election. The new President, William Henry Harrison, had
garnered some of his public appeal by portraying himself as a humble farmer
(in reality, he was the wealthy owner of 2,000 acres of land). Joel Smith
Bacon came to Columbian College from Hamilton College three years after
Harrison's election. He oversaw the transition as the College's Department of
Medicine moved to the old jail in Judiciary Square and became the National
Medical College, one of the nation's first teaching hospitals. Other
innovations included a program in natural science leading to the degree of
Bachelor of Philosophy, the college's first alumni association, and the
awarding of the first Doctor of Laws degree

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