Francis McNeil Bacon (June 27, 1835 – September 21, 1912) was an American woolen manufacturer and banker.
[2] His Bacon ancestors "came from England in the early 1600s, landed near Cape Cod, and settled in Worcester County, Mass.
[3] After graduating from Boston High School, he moved to New York City to "engage in the dry goods business.
[4] His funeral was held at the Episcopal Church of the Holy Communion on Sixth Avenue and 20th Street in Manhattan.
[27] Through his eldest son Francis, he was a grandfather of Francis McNeil Bacon III (who married photographer Antoinette Wood Frissell, sister of explorer Varick Frissell, in 1932),[28][29] and Pauline Bacon (who married attorney Harold Edward Herrick in 1918).