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Leonard Bacon (1802-1881) Born: February 19, 1802, Detroit, Michigan.

Died: December 23, 1881, New Haven, Connecticut.

Leonard’s father was David Bacon, missionary to the Indians. In his childhood years in Tallmadge, Ohio, Leonard was a classmate to John Brown, who later became a noted abolitionist.

Bacon matriculated at Yale University in autumn 1817. After graduation, he entered Andover Theological Seminary. He was ordained as an evangelist by the Hartford North Consociation, assembled at Windsor, Connecticut, September 28, 1824. In 1825, he became pastor of the First Church in New Haven, Connecticut.

Bacon’s works include:

  • Hymns and Sacred Songs for the Monthly Concert, 1823
  • Select Practical Writings of Richard Baxter, 1831
  • A Manual for Young Church Members, 1833
  • Thirteen Historical Discourses
  • The Goodly Heritage of Connecticut, 1840
  • Early Constitutional History of Connecticut, 1843
  • Commemorative Discourse, 1858
  • Historical Discourse, 1859
  • Civil Government in New Haven Colony, 1862
  • The Genesis of the New England Churches, 1874
  • The Relations of the Congregational Churches of Connecticut to Civil Government, and to Popular Education and Social Reforms, 1876

Hymns:

  1. God of Our Fathers, to Thy Throne
  2. Hail, Tranquil Hour of Closing Day
  3. Here, Lord of Life and Light, to Thee
  4. How Sweet, Through Long Remembered Years
  5. Land Where the Bones of Our Fathers Are
  6. O God, Beneath Thy Guiding Hand
  7. O God of Abraham, Ever Sure
  8. O Thou Who Hast Died to Redeem Us from Hell
  9. Though Now the Nations Sit Beneath
  10. Wake the Song of Jubilee
  11. Weep Not for the Saint That Ascends

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