The Biographical Dictionary of America/Bacon, Edwin Munroe

BACON, Edwin Munroe, editor, was born in Providence, R.I., Oct. 20, 1844; son of the Rev. Henry and Ann Eliza (Munroe) Bacon; and of early New England ancestry; on the paternal side from Cape Cod stock, and on the maternal, from the Munroe family of Lexington, represented in the Revolution. He was educated in Philadelphia and Boston private schools and at Foxboro academy He was a reporter on the Boston Advertiser, 1863-’64; editor of the Illustrated Chicago News. 1864-'68; with the New York Times, 1868-’72; member of the staff of the Boston Advertiser, 1872-'73; editor-in-chief of the Boston Globe, 1873-’78; managing editor of the Boston Advertiser, 1878-'84; editor-in-chief of the Advertiser, 1884-’86; editor-in-chief of the Boston Post, 1886-'91, and editor of Time and the Hour, Boston, Mass., 1897-1900. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from Dartmouth in 1880. He edited guide books, and published "Boston Illustrated"; "Bacon's Dictionary of Boston" (1883); "Walks and Rides in the Country Round About Boston" (1897); and "Historic Pilgrimage in New England" (1898).