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David Francis Bacon
1813–1865
A 19th-century American physician and writer, he brought together medicine, travel, religion, and politics in a small but varied body of work. His books include accounts of Africa, religious biography, and a sharp look at American public life.
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Lives of the apostles of Jesus Christ
by David Francis Bacon
About the author
Born in Prospect, Connecticut, in 1813, he studied at Yale College and later Yale Medical School before building a career as both a doctor and an author. Reference works consistently describe him as an American physician-writer, and several library records preserve his publications.
His known books show an unusually wide range. They include Memoirs of Eminently Pious Women of Britain and America (1833), Lives of the Apostles (1836), Wanderings on the Seas and Shores of Africa (1843), and The Mystery of Iniquity (1845). That mix suggests a writer interested not just in religion, but also in travel, reform, and public affairs.
Sources also note that he served in Liberia as a colonial physician under the American Colonization Society. He died in New York in 1865; some older reference pages give 1866 instead, so the exact year is reported inconsistently in available sources.