Talk:Edgar Bacon (disambiguation)

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Edgar Mayhew Bacon

Text of his Marquis Who's Who entry, from https://archive.org/stream/whoswhoinamerica02marq/whoswhoinamerica02marq_djvu.txt:

BACON, Edgar Mayhew, author; b. June 5, 1855, Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas, where his father, John R. B., was then U. S. consul; ed. private schools, Tarrytown, N. Y. ; worked in bookstore, Albany, N. Y. ; later adopted art as a profession ; later, editorial writer on New York weeklies. Re- visited West Indies in 1888-9, and again in 1890 to study conditions of life there. Has contributed stories, sketches, poems, etc., to various mags., etc. Author: The New Jamaica; The Pocket Piece (collection of short stories) ; Chronicles of Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow; etc. Address: Tarry- town-on-Hudson, N. Y. PamD 09:01, 6 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]