BACON, ROBERT (186o-1919), American banker, was born in Boston (Mass.), on July 5, 186o. He graduated from Harvard in 188o, and the following year entered the banking business in Boston. In 1894 he joined the house of J. P. Morgan and Company in New York. He was assistant secretary of State, 1 905-0g, and then for a short time secretary of State. Ambassa dor to France from 1909-12, he was commissioned major in the U.S. Reserves in 1917, being assigned to the staff of Gen. Pershing in France. He returned to America with the rank of colonel in 1918, and died in New York city on May 2g, 1919.