 A native of Evansville, Bacon worked to pass tenement and housing legislation in Indiana in 1909, 1913, and 1917.She also held leadership roles in Indiana Child Welfare Association; the Child Welfare Committee, a part of the Women's Section of the Indiana State Council of Defense; the Indiana Conference of Charities and Corrections, and the Juvenile Advisory Commission of Indiana's Probation Department.Women in Indiana would officially gain the right to vote in 1920 when the 19th Amendment was ratified for the United States constitution.