The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-05
VOTED At AGE OF IS
DR. L. w. Bacon Who Cast His First
Ballot for Andrew Jackson
in 1928.
He Quit the Democrats Long Ago,
Voted for Van SAINT
Yesterday.

An old man followed a young man yes
terday into the voting booth at Tenth
street and Nicollet avenue. This Is my
first, yote,' remarked the youth, smiling,
as he accepted blank ballot
The old man smiled also, and observed.
We'll. cast my first vote for Andrew
jackson, seventy-four years ago!
Z The veteran voter was DR.. Liberty W.
Bacon of 1929 Hennepin avenue. He is
prominent among the robust nonagener-
1ans OF Minneapolis. He celebrated his
9bth birthday week ago last Friday. He
cannot hear as we'll as he did once IT
couldn't hear the democrats at all to-day"
said he yesterday afternoon, land voted
for Van SAINT
i've lived under all the American pres
dents except two. continued the old gem
tleman. land 1 stuck to the democrats
from the time I voted for Jackson. in
, 1928. until the democrats seemed to be
throwing over their principles Then I
quit the party. Why. Andrew jackson
wasn't like these democrats we have now!
NO indeed, don't call these fellows demo-
Gratis!
For several years I was rather unde-
clded. But as soon as the republican party
started / began to vote for it, and I've
cast ballot for every republican pres
dent beginning with Fremont In 49,
Ihls Oldest physician in the northwest
Is native of Maine. where he was born
"itlie bonaparte was emperor, eight years
before the battle Of Waterloo.
In 1880 DR.. Bacon was graduated from
s the medical school of Bowdoin college.
m the only survivor of my class" COM
mented the venerable alumnus I'm fact,
there's nobody left out of several ola sses
after mine. guess was the best doctor
III the lot I knew enough to keep myself
WE'LL
Winters In Maine
For many years DR.. Bacon practiced his
PROFESSION In the town Of Lee, near Ban
sor. 1T was hard enough life, too.
tnought nothing Of driving thirty miles on
winters night-it gets cold in Maine
those nlshts-to see patient somewhere
IN the country. AT times I drove clean
over into the province New Brunswick).
Ia come back chilled to the bone in win
ter or soaked to the hide during a summer
storm, perhaps. That's why I never could
JOIN g. temperance society. though think
Saloons haven't any excuse for doing bust
ness. had to have little hot sling after
one OF those cold rides, or wouldn't be
here now
The doctor was not averse to tobacco
either during his many active years. Il
sWore off smoking and chewing fifteen or
twenty years ago. But before that-fynny
how remember those things!-the first
tn1ns l did when I got out Of bed was to
reach down for my breeches and take out
plug Of tobacco. I used to smoke pipes
and cigars good deal, also. Nowadays I
don't use either tobacco or whisky Never
was steady drinker, for that matter"
1t was in his seventy-third year that
Or. Bacon retired from practice. Thought
/ was getting old, then, but wasn't you
see. Might have kept a-going fifteen year
longer He came to Minneapolis in 1885,
and has since been living with two daugh-
tiers, his only surviving relatives. They
are Mrs. Frank H. Lewis and Miss Flor
ence r. Bacon.
"Another OLD Fellow"
Il hear there's another old fellow in
town. complained the doctor, as his WISH
tor was about to leave. that says ne's
more than 100. Well. maybe he is. But
ne isn't American born. He didn't live
under al the presidents but two!