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About Isabel Gerry Bacon
George Morgan Bacon (1872-1952), known as Morgan, was the husband of Isabel Dame Bacon and the brother-in-law of Ruth Dame Coolidge. He was born on 28 March 1872 in Worcester, Mass. to George A. and Susan Hillman Bacon. He had three siblings: Carl, Paul, and Anne. Morgan grew up in Syracuse, New York, and graduated from Cornell University with a degree in civil engineering. From 1894 to 1898, Morgan oversaw Boston street surveys for the Boston Transit Commission and helped build the local subway. He went into private practice in 1898 and worked on various sewer and electrical projects. On 5 February 1898, he married Isabel Dame, and the couple brought up five daughters in Salt Lake City. Morgan traveled throughout Utah and neighboring states as an engineer, overseeing the construction of dams, tunnels, canals, pipe lines, mines, power plants, and other projects. He worked as the U.S. deputy mineral surveyor for Utah, Idaho, and Nevada and became state engineer for Utah from 1925 to 1932. He belonged to many professional engineering societies such as the Utah Society for Engineers, American Society for Civil Engineers and the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education. He was a Mason and wrote poetry as an avocation. Morgan lived and worked in Salt Lake City until his death in 1952.
Isabel Gerry Dame Bacon (1869-1933), often called Belle, was the daughter of Lorin L. and Isabel Arnold Dame, and an older sister of Ruth Dame Coolidge. She was born on 7 June 1869 in Braintree, Mass. at the home of her maternal grandparents, John Bass and Nancy B. T. Arnold. She attended Medford High School and Symonds Kindergarten Normal Training Class in Boston. On 5 February 1898, she married George Morgan Bacon in Medford. Early in 1900, Morgan and Belle moved to Love, Colo. and then Colorado Springs where Morgan worked as a civil engineer. In 1901, they settled permanently in Salt Lake City, Utah. Isabel and Morgan had five daughters: Isabel Lyman (1899-1973); Dorothy York (1901-1963); Lois Bigelow (1904-1986); Barbara Dame (b.1905); and Priscilla Alden (b.1910). Isabel was an educational and social service activist in Salt Lake City. She organized the first Salt Lake City PTA and served as its president for many years. She also helped to establish the Home and School League (also known as the Salt Lake Council of Parents and Teachers) which promoted home economics and manual training. In 1917, Isabel fought for and won passage of a law in the state legislature to aid under-nourished children and promote mandatory education for children. She was president of the Salt Lake City Civic Center for twelve years and was influential in establishing a community baby clinic, a visiting nurses association, a social welfare league and a society for mental hygiene. In 1923, she became chairwoman of the Better Homes Committee and later served as a member of the Utah White House Conference on Child Study and Child Care and the Educational Relief Program. Isabel died on 10 June 1933 in Salt Lake City.
- Census: 1880 - Medford, Middlesex Co., MA; Census: Dist 405, pg 123D, image 12
- Updated from MyHeritage Family Trees via sister Olive Arnold Dame by SmartCopy: Dec 14 2014, 7:15:41 UTC
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Isabel Gerry Bacon's Timeline
| 1869 |
June 7, 1869
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Dowerchest
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| 1899 |
April 13, 1899
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MA, United States
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May 18, 1901
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Medford, MA, United States
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January 14, 1904
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Salt lake, Salt Lake, UT, United States
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| 1905 |
September 10, 1905
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Salt Lake, Salt Lake, UT, United States
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August 10, 1910
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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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| 1932 |
June 10, 1932
Age 63
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Mount Olivet Cemetery, salt Lake City, Salt Lake, UT, United States
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