Amador County Biographies

Marcus R. Bacon

Submitted by Kathy Sedler 

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	Marcus R. Bacon, one of Ione’s oldest and best known citizens, is 
now living retired after over thirty-seven years of close attention to the clay 
business, in which he was notably successful.  He was born on a farm in 
Ashtabula county, Ohio, on the 20th of November, 1852, and is a son of Marcus D. 
and Barbara (Rymolt) Bacon, the latter of German parentage and bother are now 
deceased.  The father, who was descended from old English stock, was reared in 
New York state, and during his active years became prominent as an operator in 
the various eastern oil fields.
	Marcus R. Bacon received his education in the public schools of his 
native state, after which he took over the operation of a dairy belonging to his 
father.  He conducted that enterprise until he was thirty years of age, when he 
came to California, first locating at Galt, where he spent a year, and then went 
to Campo, San Diego county.  His next move was to Carbondale, Amador county, 
where he lived until coming to Ione in 1889.  Here he engaged in the clay 
business, out of which he gained notable success, due largely to the fact that 
he had made an exhaustive study of clays and was an authority on the subject.  
He was also connected with Clark & Son, of Alameda, which firm he furnished with 
the clay required in its factory.  In 1926, when he decided to retire, he sold 
the business to his oldest son, M. J. Bacon, who had previously been associated 
with him and who has continued the business to the present time.
	At Hamden, Vinton county, Ohio, Mr. Bacon was united in marriage to 
Miss Anna Quiggle, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Jefferson Quiggle.  They 
became the parents of three children, namely:  Mark J., who took over the clay 
business of his father; Charles Milton, who operates an automobile machine shop; 
and Kittie, who died in 1921, at the age of thirty-two years.  There are also 
seven grandchildren and one great-grandchild.  Mr. Bacon has always been a 
stalwart democrat in his political belief, and has been a member of the 
Independent Order of Odd Fellows for many years.  A man of rugged strength of 
character and kindly manner, he commands the unreserved respect and esteem of 
those who know him.
 
History of the Sacramento Valley, California By Mj. Jesse Walton Wooldridge Page 51.
The Pioneer Historical Publishing Co., Chicago (1931)