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BACON, FRANK WRIGHT MUDGE (1871-1956)

BACON, FRANK WRIGHT MUDGE, Anglican rector, Newcastle and Nelson, 1906-08; b. Digby, N.S., 22 Nov 1871, s/o John Bacon and Louisa V. Mudge; m. 1897, Maria Maud Publicover, of Blandford, Lunenburg Co., N.S.; d. Montague township, Ont., 14 Nov 1956.

Frank W. M. Bacon attended Dalhousie University (BA 1892) and was trained for the ministry at Wycliffe College, Toronto. Ordained a priest in Halifax in 1895, he spent a year at Blandford, N.S., three years as a curate in Saint John, N.B., and seven years as rector at Musquash, southwest of Saint John.He was appointed to Newcastle in October 1906, as successor to the Rev. Thomas H. Cuthbert.

Bacon had pastoral responsibility for St Andrew's Church in Newcastle and St Mark's in Nelson. In 1906-07 he also conducted services once a month at St Peter's at Millerton, because Derby and Blackville had no clergyman. He was "much beloved" by his parishioners but left for Richibucto after only a year and a half of service.

Bacon was rector at Richibucto until 1917. He was subsequently a travelling clergyman based in Fredericton and then rector, successively, at Campobello and Richmond, N.B. He was an honorary canon of Christ Church Cathedral, Fredericton, from 1928 until his retirement from regular parochial duties in 1938. He resided at Young's Cove until the early 1950s and then moved to Ontario.

Sources

[b/m] Can. Who's Who 1948 [d] Francis research / Advocate 28 Jun 1917; JDS 1907; Leader 5 Oct 1906, 14 Feb 1908


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