Edwin Monroe Bacon was a writer and editor who worked for the Boston Daily Advertiser

Boston Daily Advertiser

The Boston Daily Advertiser was the first daily newspaper in Boston, and for many years the only daily paper in Boston.-History:...

, The Boston Globe

The Boston Globe

The Boston Globe is an American daily newspaper based in Boston, Massachusetts. The Boston Globe has been owned by The New York Times Company since 1993...

, and other newspapers, and who wrote several books about Boston

Boston

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, Massachusetts

Massachusetts

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, and New England.

Brief biography

Edwin M. Bacon was born on October 20, 1844, in Providence, Rhode Island

Providence, Rhode Island

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. He attended school in Foxboro, Massachusetts.

He worked for the Boston Daily Advertiser

Boston Daily Advertiser

The Boston Daily Advertiser was the first daily newspaper in Boston, and for many years the only daily paper in Boston.-History:...

 (1863-1886, intermittently); Illustrated Chicago News (1864-1868); The New York Times

The New York Times

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 (1868-1872); The Boston Globe

The Boston Globe

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 (1873-78); The Boston Post (1886-1891); The Time and the Hour (1897-1900). He sometimes wrote under the pen-name "Taverner."

In 1880, Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College

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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.

External links

• http://www.worldcat.org/wcidentities/lccn-n85-79717