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Irving Roscoe Bacon (b. 1875 d. 1962) is a artist whose primary relivance is associated to his work for Henry Ford in the early twenteith century.

Born in Fitchburg Massachusetts on November 29th 1875 to Joseph and Caroline Bacon(from Henry's Lieutenants auth. Ford R. Bryan) he was was seen at an early age to have prodigal skills in drawing. Reminiceses of one of his early classmates went as follows: "Miss Jones was drawing teacher for all public school children. Irving used to help her by drawing the lessons on the blackboard, and there was a faint suspicion, that no one dared to utter, that he was better than she." -George W Stark. (from Henry's Lieutenants auth. Ford R. Bryan)