Edwin Monroe Bacon

Edwin Monroe Bacon
Bacon c. 1896
Born	October 22, 1844
Died	1916
Occupation	Newspaper editor and writer
Nationality	English

Edwin Monroe Bacon (October 20, 1844 - 1916)^[1] was a writer and editor who worked for the Boston Daily Advertiser and The Boston Globe and also wrote books about Boston, Massachusetts, and New England. He was born on October 20, 1844, in Providence, Rhode Island, and attended school in Foxboro, Massachusetts. He worked for the Boston Daily Advertiser (1863-1886, intermittently); Illustrated Chicago News (1864-1868); The New York Times (1868-1872); Boston Globe (1873–78); The Boston Post (1886-1891); The Time and the Hour (1897-1900).^[2][3][4] He sometimes wrote under the pen-name "Taverner."^[5] In 1880, Dartmouth College awarded Bacon an honorary M.A. degree.

Selected works

• With George Edward Ellis. Bacon's dictionary of Boston. Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1886.
• With Edward Stanwood. Boston illustrated: containing full descriptions of the city and its immediate suburbs, its public buildings and institutions, business edifices, parks and avenues, statues, harbor and islands, etc., etc., revised ed. Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1886.
• With Richard Herndon. Boston of to-day: a glance at its history and characteristics. With biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men. Boston: Post Publishing Company, 1892.
• Historic pilgrimages in New England: among landmarks of Pilgrim and Puritan days and of the provincial and revolutionary periods. Silver, Burdett & Company, 1898.
• Walks and rides in the country round about Boston: covering thirty-six cities and towns, parks and public reservations, within a radius of twelve miles from the State house. Pub. for the Appalachian Mountain Club by Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1898.
• The Connecticut River and the Valley of the Connecticut. Historical and descriptive. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1906.

References

1. Edwin M. Bacon; Once Managing Editor of The New York Times Dies at 71. New York Times. February 25, 1916.
2. Who's who in New England. A.N. Marquis, 1915.
3. Rossiter Johnson, John Howard Brown, eds. The twentieth century biographical dictionary of notable Americans. The Biographical Society, 1904.
4. Richard Herndon, Edwin Monroe Bacon. Boston of to-day: a glance at its history and characteristics. With biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men. Boston: Post Publishing Company, 1892; p.133.
5. Lindsay Swift. Literary landmarks of Boston : a visitor's guide to points of literary interest in and about Boston. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1903.

External links

• Works by Edwin Monroe Bacon at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Edwin Monroe Bacon at Internet Archive
• Works by Edwin M. Bacon at Open Library