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David Francis Bacon
1813–1865
A Yale-trained physician who also turned to biography, travel writing, and religious history, he wrote with the curiosity of a doctor and the reach of a 19th-century man of letters.
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Lives of the apostles of Jesus Christ
by David Francis Bacon
About the author
Born in Prospect, Connecticut, on November 30, 1813, he was an American physician and author who studied at Yale, graduating from Yale College in 1831 and from Yale Medical School in 1836.
Soon after his medical training, he was sent to Liberia by the American Colonization Society as a colonial physician. That experience fed into his travel book Wanderings on the Seas and Shores of Africa (1843), while his other known works include Memoirs of Eminently Pious Women of Britain and America (1833) and Lives of the Apostles (1836).
He died in New York on January 23, 1865. Some reference sources list 1866 instead, so the exact year of death is reported inconsistently in the records I found.