Diary of Joel Smith Bacon

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Diary of Joel Smith Bacon, Class of 1826. Bacon attended Cortland Academy in Homer, N.Y. and Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y. (B.A. 1826). Later in life he was a president of Columbian College (now George Washington University), and a Baptist minister who distributed Bibles to freed slaves after th Show moreDiary of Joel Smith Bacon, Class of 1826. Bacon attended Cortland Academy in Homer, N.Y. and Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y. (B.A. 1826). Later in life he was a president of Columbian College (now George Washington University), and a Baptist minister who distributed Bibles to freed slaves after the Civil War. Show less