Introduction

Biography

Leonard was the son of 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.

Works

• 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
• Psalms & Hymns for Chris­tian Use and Wor­ship, with E. T. Fitch et al. (Ge­ne­ral As­so­cia­tion of Con­nec­ti­cut, 1845)
• 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