Named for East Whittier pioneers Edmund Warren “E.W.” Bacon (1864-1949) and Ann Bacon (1868-1962). E.W. came from Ontario, Canada; Ann (née Irvine) from Scotland. They met in Saginaw, MI and were united in marriage there in 1890. Months later, E.W. was hired by the East Whittier Land and Development Co. as a civil engineer. Ann joined him here in 1891 and they gradually amassed a great deal of land in these hills, stretching from present-day Bacon Road (named in 1947) out to Penn Park. Their house, now gone, was located at Michigan Avenue and Mar Vista Street. E.W. Bacon was a friend and associate of developer/oilman Simon J. Murphy, namesake of Murphy Ranch Park. The Bacons had two daughters: Elsie Bacon Reese (1893-1961) was a homemaker and landowner (her chunk of family property was subdivided as “Reese Heights” by Dan E. Strub in 1946) and Dr. Elizabeth E. Bacon (1904-1972) a noted anthropologist.
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