Edwin Monroe Bacon

Edwin Monroe Bacon (alternately, Edwin Munroe Bacon; pseudonym, Taverner; October 20, 1844 - June 17, 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. His books include Bacon's Dictionary of Boston.

Edwin Monroe Bacon
Bacon c. 1896
BornOctober 22, 1844
DiedJune 17, 1916
Pen nameTaverner
OccupationNewspaper editor and writer
NationalityEnglish

Early years and education

He was born on October 20, 1844, in Providence, Rhode Island. He was the son of Henry and Eliza Ann (Munroe) Bacon. He was of English and Scotch ancestry. His father, born in Boston, son of Robert Bacon, a native of Barnstable, of an early Cape Cod family, and prominent in his day as a manufacturer at Baconville (now part of Winchester), was a Universalist clergyman and editor, who died in Philadelphia when the son was 12 years old. His mother was a native of Lexington, Massachusetts, and two of her ancestors fought in the fight on Lexington Green. She was a descendant of William Munroe, from Scotland, settled in Lexington in 1660.[2]

Bacon's early education was mainly attained in private schools in Providence, Philadelphia, and Boston. He finished his studies in an academy at Foxboro, Massachusetts, a private and boarding school, which flourished for many years under James L. Stone as principal, and which fitted many boys for college. Prepared for college, he determined not to enter, but at once to engage in the work of his chosen profession.[2]

Career

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).[3][4][5] He sometimes wrote under the pen-name "Taverner."[6] 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. Bacon 1896, p. 836.
  3. Who's who in New England. A.N. Marquis, 1915.
  4. Rossiter Johnson, John Howard Brown, eds. The twentieth century biographical dictionary of notable Americans. The Biographical Society, 1904.
  5. 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.
  6. Lindsay Swift. Literary landmarks of Boston : a visitor's guide to points of literary interest in and about Boston. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1903.

Bibliography

  • This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bacon, Edwin Monroe (1896). Men of Progress: One Thousand Biographical Sketches and Portraits of Leaders in Business and Professional Life in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (Public domain ed.). New England Magazine. p. 836.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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