Albion Fellows Bacon

Born in 1865, Albion Fellows Bacon was an American writer and social reformer whose life was closely tied to Evansville, Indiana. She became widely known for campaigning to improve housing conditions for working-class families and for speaking up about poverty, public health, and civic responsibility.

Bacon was often described as a leading Indiana reformer of the Progressive Era. She combined practical local activism with writing, using articles, speeches, and books to argue that cities should take better care of the people living in them. Her efforts helped draw public attention to unsafe tenements and the need for housing reform.

She died in 1933, but her legacy endures through her role in shaping social reform in Indiana and through the example she set as a writer who turned concern for her community into action.