American Medical Biographies/Bacon, David Francis

Bacon, David Francis (1813–1866)

David Francis Bacon, physician and writer, was born at Prospect, Connecticut, November 30, 1813, and died at New York City, January 23, 1866. He graduated at Yale in 1831 and at the Yale Medical School in 1836. Soon after graduating he was sent as principal colonial physician to Liberia by the American colonization society. During the greater part of his life he lived in New York, and was actively interested in politics. He was a frequent contributor to periodical literature, and published "Lives of the Apostles," New York, 1835, and also "Wanderings on the Seas and Shores of Africa," 1843.

Appleton's Cyclop. Amer. Biog., N. Y., 1887.