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Albion Fellows Bacon
1865–1933
A determined Indiana reformer and writer, she turned firsthand encounters with poverty into a long campaign for safer, healthier housing. Her life links grassroots activism, public speaking, and books written from deep conviction.
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Songs Ysame
by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston, Albion Fellows Bacon
About the author
Albion Fellows Bacon was an American social reformer and writer from Evansville, Indiana, born on April 8, 1865, and remembered especially for her work to improve housing conditions for poor families. After seeing the effects of overcrowded and unsafe homes through local charity work, she made tenement and housing reform her central cause.
She became a leading voice in Indiana’s Progressive Era reform movement, organizing support, speaking publicly, and pushing for stronger housing laws. Historians and reference sources describe her as one of Indiana’s most important advocates for better municipal living conditions, and her efforts helped shape state housing legislation in the early 20th century.
Bacon also wrote books and essays, bringing the same moral energy to her writing that she brought to public life. She died on December 10, 1933, but her name remained influential enough that later organizations and historical projects in Indiana continued to honor her work and legacy.