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

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.

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