Edward R. Bacon

**Edward Rathbone Bacon** (an haife shi a Le Roy, New York, a ranar 22 ga watan Nuwamba, na shekara ta 1848) shugaban wani kamfanin jirgin ƙasa ne, lauya kuma mai kuɗi. Mahaifinsa David Rinaldo Bacon ne, mahaifiyarsa kuma Elizabeth Rathbone. Yana da 'yan'uwa huɗu, Walter Rathbone, Lathrup Rufus, John Ganson, da Mary Sibley Bacon. Bacon bai taɓa yin aure ko haihuwa ba. Bacon ya yi aiki a matsayin mataimakin shugaban kamfanin layin dogo na Baltimore da Ohio, kuma a matsayin shugaban kamfanin layin dogo na Baltimore da Ohio Southwestern. Ya kuma yi aiki a matsayin lauya kuma mai kuɗi.   Bacon ya mutu a ranar 2 ga Disamba, 1915, a Baltimore, Maryland, sakamakon tiyatar appendicitis da ya yi masa mako guda da ya gabata. 

Babban gidan Bacon shine 247 5th Avenue, New York, inda ya zauna tare da ɗan'uwansa Walter da surukarsa Virginia P. Bacon .  An kuma ruwaito cewa ya zauna a Buffalo na ɗan lokaci.  Bacon yana aiki a ofis a 2 Wall Street a New York.  Ya yi tafiye-tafiye akai-akai zuwa Turai, inda ya sayi ayyukan da suka ƙunshi tarin fasaharsa mai yawa.   An haɗa shi cikin jerin mutane masu daraja da suka zo daga Turai zuwa birnin New York a cikin *jaridar New York Times* a ranar 13 ga Oktoba, 1895. 

## Sana'a
Edward Bacon ya yi karatu a Kwalejin Phillips Exeter da ke Exeter, New Hampshire .  A shekara ta 1869 aka shigar da shi Bar a Buffalo, New York.  Bacon ya zauna kuma ya yi aiki a Buffalo na wani lokaci, inda ya "sami nasara a matsayin lauya."  A kusan shekara ta 1881 ya koma birnin New York kuma ya zama Mataimakin Shugaban Kamfanin Layin Dogon Jirgin Kasa na Cincinnati, Washington, da Baltimore.   Daga 1890 zuwa 1902 ya kasance Shugaban Kamfanin Layin Dogon Jirgin Kasa na Cincinnati, Washington, da Baltimore, wanda daga baya aka kira shi Baltimore da Ohio Southwestern Railway . A gaskiya ma, "ta hanyar kokarinsa ne aka gina reshen hanyar Cincinnati, Washington & Baltimore," a cewar mutuwar Bacon ta *New York Times* .  A shekara ta 1896 an nada shi Shugaban Hukumar Daraktocin Layin Dogon Jirgin Kasa na Baltimore da Ohio .

Bacon ya ba da shawara ga kamfanonin jiragen ƙasa daban-daban a fannin shari'a kafin da kuma lokacin da yake aiki a Baltimore da Ohio Southwestern Railroad da Baltimore da Ohio Railroad.  A shekara ta 1881 ya shiga kamfanin Field, Dorsheimer, Deyo, da Bacon.  Kamfanonin da ya ba da shawara sun haɗa da Baltimore da Ohio Railroad Company, Consolidated Coal Company, West Virginia da Pittsburgh Railroad Company, da Vicksburg, Shreveport &amp;amp; Pacific Railroad Company .  An san Bacon a matsayin "ɗaya daga cikin shahararrun masu kuɗi a ƙasar." 

Karin mukamai sun hada da daraktan Kamfanin Lamuni da Amincewa na Farmer's, darektan Kamfanin Sufuri na Inter-borough da ke New York, darektan Kamfanin Knickerbocker Apartment, darektan Kamfanin Jirgin Kasa na Kansas City Southern, da kuma na Kamfanin Jirgin Kasa na Cincinnati, Hamilton, da Dayton.   

## Tarin zane-zane
Edward Bacon ya mallaki tarin zane-zanen Old Master da kayayyakin fasahar kasar Sin. Ya kasance mai sirri game da tattara shi, kuma "bai taɓa yarda ya ba da rancen hotuna daga tarinsa don baje kolin jama'a ba."  Wani labari a cikin *American Art News* da aka buga bayan mutuwar Bacon ya ce "Abin mamaki ne cewa babu wani jarida, a cikin labaran mutuwar Edward R. Bacon da aka buga sosai kwanan nan, da ya ma ambaci shi a matsayin mai tattara zane-zane, amma duk da haka ya shahara a duniyar zane-zane a matsayin mai son fasaha da kuma mai tattara abubuwa masu daraja." 

Bacon ya fara tattarawa kimanin shekaru 25 kafin mutuwarsa.  Ya fara ne da "ta hanya mara kyau... maimakon a matsayin kayan haɗi don bayar da gudummawa ta wata hanya mai daraja ga kamannin gidansa.  Bacon gabaɗaya yana da sha'awar tattara ayyukan Tsohon Masters da kayan fasaha na China. Yana da sha'awar "kyawawan da ƙauna" kuma yana fifita hotunan "masu haske da luwaɗi", da duk wani abu "cike da rai."  Ya fara tattara zane-zane daga sanannun masu fasaha na zamaninsa, sannan ya koma ayyukan Faransa na ƙarni na 18. Na gaba, ya fara tattara hotunan Ingilishi na ƙarni na 18. Daga baya, ya juya zuwa ga tsoffin kayan tarihi na Italiya, ƙungiyar "waɗanda ba sa jan hankalin waɗanda ba a noma ba."  Dangane da tarin fasahar Sinanci, John Getz ya rubuta cewa Edward Bacon yana "cikin waɗannan ƙwararrun waɗanda suka daɗe suna gane kyawun da ƙimar fasahar Sin kamar yadda aka bayyana a cikin tukwane, cloisonné, tagulla…"  Getz ya kuma ambaci "wakili mai aminci a ƙasashen waje" wanda ya taimaka wa Bacon wajen gano da siyan waɗannan zane-zane. Zai iya yiwuwa Ina nufin Mr. Eugene Fischhof na Paris, wanda aka san yana aiki da Bacon.  Bacon ya ajiye tarin kayansa a cikin gidan Upper East Side da yake zaune tare da ɗan'uwansa da surukarsa. 

Manyan ayyukan da aka yi a cikin tarin Bacon sun haɗa da:

* *Yanayi Huɗu* na François Boucher
* *Hoton Mrs. Hart* na Henry Raeburn
* *Hoton Rigaud* na Jean-Antoine Watteau
* *Señorita Tuzo* na Francisco Goya

A shekarar 1919, an buga wani kasida da ke bayyana dukkan ayyukan da ke cikin tarin Bacon a ƙayyadadden adadi.   Ƙirƙirar kasida ita ce ra'ayin surukarsa, Virginia P. Bacon, kodayake ba ta rayu ba har sai da aka buga kasida mai juzu'i biyu. Wani wakilin *American Art News* ya rubuta, a cikin wani bita na littattafan, cewa "Katalog ɗin suna da halin adabi kuma sun bambanta da katalog ɗin siyarwa da tattarawa na yau da kullun ta yadda suna ba da hotuna masu ban sha'awa na ayyukan da aka jera da zane-zane, da kuma ƙananan bayanan ƙasa."

## Kasancewar membobin ƙungiyar da kuma kasancewar al'umma

Bacon memba ne na ƙungiyoyi da yawa na New York, ciki har da Manhattan Club, Union Club, Metropolitan Art Museum, Tuxedo Club, New York Yacht Club, da kuma Racquet and Tennis Club.   Ya kasance memba na Kwalejin Kimiyyar Siyasa da ke New York a 1912.  Bacon kuma ya riƙe akwatin 18 a Metropolitan Opera a ranakun Litinin marasa kyau.  Ya kasance memba na ƙungiyoyi da dama da ke da alhakin motoci, kamar Automobile of America, da Royal Automobile Club of England.  

Bugu da ƙari, Bacon sanannen mutum ne a Amurka da Ingila. An saka shi a cikin littafin Who's Who in America a shekarar 1907, a cikin littafin Herringshaw mai suna American Blue Book of Biography a shekarar 1914, da kuma littafin Who's Who a birnin New York da kuma jihar a shekarar 1914. A shekarar 1913, wani labari a jaridar New York Times ya bayyana cewa Edward Bacon ba zai iya halartar wani babban taron agaji a Landan ba, domin ya "bar Ritz" kuma yana "tafiya a jirgin ruwa zuwa New York" bayan ya murmure daga hatsarin mota.

## Mutuwa da dukiya
Bacon ya mutu a Asibitin Johns Hopkins da ke Baltimore, Maryland a ranar 2 ga Disamba, 1915. Mutuwarsa ta faru ne sakamakon matsaloli bayan tiyatar ciwon appendicitis.  Majiyoyi sun kiyasta cewa kadarorinsa sun kai dala miliyan biyu a lokacin mutuwarsa.  Ya yi wa dangi da ma'aikata wasiyya da ta kai kimanin dala miliyan daya,000,000, kuma ya ƙayyade cewa sauran kadarorin, gami da tarin zane-zanensa, za a raba su daidai tsakanin ɗan'uwansa Walter R. Bacon da surukarsa Virginia P. Bacon.  Gado ya haɗa da dala dubu huɗu ($400,000) ga 'yar'uwarsa Mary B. Allen da ɗan'uwansa John G. Bacon, kuma 'yan'uwansa da 'yan'uwansa sun sami dala dubu hamsin da huɗu ($50,000) da kuma dala dubu huɗu ($40,000). Ya kuma yi wasiyya daban-daban ga mai dafa abinci, sakatare, mai kula da gidan haya, mai kula da ƙafa, da mai kula da 'yan mata. 

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