DEC 13: Libbie’s Father is Born

Written By Mark Marymee

Judge Daniel Stanton Bacon and his daughter, Libbie Bacon Custer. (Credit: National Portrait Gallery)

This week in 1798, Daniel Stanton Bacon, father of Elizabeth “Libby” Bacon Custer, was born in Onondaga, New York. His father, Dr. Leonard Bacon was age 27 and his mother, Elizabeth Clift Bacon was age 22.

Mark Marymee
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