This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BACON, Rowlett, Edwards, Wilson, Spears, Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hBB.2ACE/831 Message Board Post: This book has no cover, and no index, I bought it on Ebay, it just has the insides, but it full of Indiana biographies. I am not researching this family, just thought I would share. I do not know anymore about these families or these surnames. Typed by Lora Radiches: Surnames in this biography are: BACON, Rowlett, Edwards, Wilson, Spears, Parks, Tuck, Turner, Caldwell, Mayes, Hinkle CHARLES PARKS BACON, of Evansville, was graduated from medical college a few months after the Civil war broke out, and at the age of ninety-four is one of the oldest doctors in Indiana. He practiced his profession for over half a century, and more than forty years of that time he was relied upon as a man of skill and highest professional attainments in the City of Evansville. Doctor Bacon was born in Christian County, Kentucky, September 6, 1836, a son of Charles Asbury and Susan (Rowlett) Bacon. Both parents were born in Virginia, and in 1832 moved to Christian County, Kentucky. His father was a farmer, later a merchant at La Fayette and at Garrettsburg, Kentucky. He died in January, 1886, at the age of seventy-nine. His first wife, Susan Rowlett, died in 1840, and of five children two died in infancy. Thomas Langston, who died in 1918, at the age of eighty-six, was also a physician and surgeon, who practiced many years at Hopkinsville, Kentucky; he married Elizabeth Edwards, of Christian County, and of their six children four died young, and the only one now living is Susan, wife of Walter A. Wilson. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson had six children: Thomas B., who lost his life by accident; Lucy married Mode Spears, a Methodist minister; Miss Emma Parks is at home, and Susan is in school. The other two died in infancy. The second son of Charles Asbury Bacon, Mathew Lydall Bacon, who died at the age of sixty-four in 1897, was a merchant and real estate man at Memphis, Tennessee, and married Martha Tuck, of Virginia, leaving a daughter, Elizabeth, who is the wife of Cooper Turner, in the wholesale drug business, and their three children are Martha T., born in 1901, and Cooper, Jr., and Elizabeth A., twins, both of whom are law students. Charles A. Bacon by a second marriage had three other sons, one of whom, Hilary E., has for many years been a prominent merchant at Evansville. Dr. Charles Parks Bacon grew up from the age of ten years at Cadiz, Trigg County, Kentucky. He attended schools in Kentucky, for two years studied medicine under his brother, Doctor Thomas, and was graduated from the School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania in 1861, and in June of that year began practice at Cadiz, Kentucky. He remained there twelve years and in February, 1873, located at Evansville, where he kept up his work with unfailing skill and more than professional devotion until he retired in 1917, after having spent fifty-six years in a notable career of helpfulness to his fellow men. Doctor Bacon married at Cadiz, Kentucky, January 23, 1866, Miss Emma Caldwell Mayes, daughter of Mathew and Elizabeth Ann (Caldwell) Mayes. Her parents were born in Kentucky and her father was a prominent lawyer of that state. Mrs. Bacon, who for many years was prominent in the Christian Church and in charitable and social circles at Evansville, died October 27, 1918. Their only daughter, Emma Mayes, married Mr. Clarence L. Hinkle, of Evansville, and they had a daughter, Charline Mayes Hinkle. Doctor Bacon in politics has always been a Democrat and in 1896 was an elector on the gold Democratic ticket. He is a member of the Christian Church, is a York and thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and held many offices in the Scottish Rite bodies and also went through the York Rite bodies to the rank of eminent commander. He was one of the organizers and is a charter member of the Vanderburg County Medical Society, a member of the Indiana State and American Medical Associations. Doctor Bacon was always a student throughout his routine work as a physician and surgeon. He attended the New York Polyclinic and kept in touch with advances in his profession by attending medical conventions. His success in a material way did not prevent him from giving a great deal of his professional time without consideration of pay to individual cases requiring his skill. He was for many years visiting surgeon to St. Mary’s Hospital, consulting surgeon to the Deaconess Hospital, and physician and surgeon and a trustee of the Rathbone Memorial Home. In the old Evansville Medical College, established before the Civil war, he filled three successive chairs, that of anatomy, surgery and finally the chair of surgical diseases of women. Doctor Bacon has for over fifty years been one of the directors of the Citizens Bank & Trust Company of Evansville and has held the office of vice president for forty years. Doctor Bacon’s home since he came to Evansville in 1873 has been at the same address, 619 South Second Street.