From the Oct. 17, 2015, Boston Herald "War of 1812 vet with storied history gets Everett gravestone" by O'Ryan Johnson and Matt Ingersoll.
A Boston man who fought at the Battle of Tippecanoe, befriended a governor who became president, was taken prisoner by the British and founded Sailors' Snug Harbor has been honored.
A gravestone was unveiled by a grandson at Woodland Cemetery in Everett for Lt. Josiah Bacon, a veteran of the War of 1812.
He was a soldier, a leader of the Whig party in Massachusetts, state representative from Sandwich and a philanthropist.
In 1808, he joined the 4th U.S. Infantry and was called to help Indiana Governor William Henry Harrison quell an Indian uprising.
--Brock-Perry
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of America's "Forgotten War," the War of 1812 that took place over three years, 1812 to 1815.
Battle of New Orleans.
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