Margaret Hope Bacon (née Borchardt; April 7, 1921 – February 24, 2011) was an American Quaker historian, author and lecturer.
[1] Bacon spent her early childhood in New York City and moved to Florida as an adolescent.
[3] During World War II, she accompanied her husband to work at Springfield Hospital in Sykesville, Maryland as his assignment for conscientious objector status.
[4] She worked at the American Friends Service Committee for many years and was the inspiration for the rehabilitation of the Fair Hill Burial Ground, a historic Quaker cemetery in North Philadelphia and the final resting place of abolitionists Lucretia Mott and Robert Purvis.
[6] Bacon died at her home at Crosslands in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania on February 24, 2011, aged 79.