David Francis Bacon (November 30, 1813 – January 23, 1865) was an American physician and author.
David Bacon, (well known as one of the missionary pioneers of Ohio and Michigan), and was born November 30, 1813, in Prospect, Connecticut.
A short time afterwards he was sent out by the American Colonization Society, as principal colonial physician in Liberia.
After his return from Liberia, he published three parts of a work entitled Wanderings on the Seas and Shores of Africa,[3] in which his observations on the west coast of that country are very minutely recorded (N. Y.
8vo) During most of his life he resided in New York, and at one time he was actively engaged in political affairs, as an earnest advocate of the election of Henry Clay to the Presidency.