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312 his nephew's death. He returned to the United States in 1837, but remained only two years. Obtaining permission in 1841 to reside in Italy, he passed the remainder of his life in Florence. The confidential letters that passed between him and Napoleon I. were published in "Memoires et correspondance politique et militaire du roi Joseph," by A. du Casse. See also "Mémoires," by Miot de Melito, and "Biographical Sketch of Joseph Bonaparte" (London, 1833).

BONARD, Louis, miser, b. in Rouen, France, in 1809; d. in New York city, 20 Feb., 1871. Of his life previous to his coming to the United States in 1851 nothing is known. During his residence in New York city he occupied, in squalor and wretchedness, a room six by eight feet in dimensions on an obscure street. Heavy wooden bars were fastened across the solitary dingy window, and bars and bolts protected the door. The room was devoid of furniture, save a broken table, a mattress lifted from the floor by a few boards supported by bricks, and a trunk. There was no fire and no place for one. On 14 Feb., a few days before his death, he sent a message to Henry Bergh, of the society for the prevention of cruelty to animals, whom he had never met, and desired to make his will. In it was revealed that he had property to the value of $150,000, all of which was devised to Mr. Bergh's society. The trunk was filled with gold and silver watches in alternate layers, together with a large quantity of jewelry and diamonds. Bonard's remains were buried in Greenwood cemetery and a suitable memorial erected over them.

BOND, Henry, physician and genealogist, b. in Watertown, Mass., 31 March, 1790 ; d. in Philadelphia, Pa., 4 May. 1859. He was a grandson of Col. William Bond, of the revolutionary army, who died near Ticonderoga, 31 Aug., 1770. He was graduated at Dartmouth in 18l3, studied medicine, and practised in Concord, N. H., and from November, 1819, till his death, in Philadelphia. For several years he was president of the Philadelphia board of health. Besides numerous contributions to medical and other journals, he published a remarkably thorough genealogical work entitled "Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Mass., including Waltham and Weston " (Boston. 1856).

BOND, John R. S., journalist, b. in Ohio in 1822 ; d. in Chillicothe, Ohio, in December, 1872. He was the son of a pioneer of Ohio. In his youth he travelled on horseback through the wilderness to Kankakee river, and then in a skiff down that river and the Mississippi to St. Louis. He owned at different times as many as eight western newspapers, was the founder of the Louisville "Courier-Journal," and at the time of his death was editor of the Scioto "Gazette."

BOND, Shadrack, governor of Illinois, b. in Maryland; d. in Kaskaskia. Ill., 13 April, 1832. He received a liberal education and removed to Kaskaskia, then in Indiana territory, was a member of the legislature of the territory of Illinois, and was its first delegate to congress, serving from 3 Dec, 1812, till 18 April, 1814. In 1814 he was appointed receiver of public moneys, and when Illinois became a state he was elected its first governor, serving from 1818 till 1822.

BOND, Thomas, physician, b. in Maryland in 1712 ; d. in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1784. He was a distinguished practitioner of Philadelphia, delivered the first clinical lectures in the Pennsylvania hospital, and was associated with Dr. Franklin and Dr. John Bartram, the botanist, in a literary society of that city.

BOND, Thomas Emerson, journalist, b. in Baltimore, Md., in February, 1782 ; d. in New York, 14 March, 1856. He studied medicine in Philadelphia and Baltimore, practised with success in Baltimore, and was called to a chair in the medical college of Maryland, which after a few years he resigned on account of failing health. For many years he was a local preacher in the Methodist Episcopal church. During the controversy carried on from 1816 till 1830 over reform in church government, which resulted in the secession of the opponents of the episcopate and advocates of lay representation in 1830 and the formation of the Methodist Protestant church, he took a prominent part in the discussion. In 1827 he published an appeal to Methodists, directed against the proposed changes, in 1828 a "Narrative and Defence of the Church Authorities," and in 1831 and 1832 he defended the polity of Episcopal Methodism in a journal printed in Baltimore called the "Itinerant," of which he was editor. He subsequently edited for twelve years the "Christian Advocate and Journal," the leading Methodist organ, of which he assumed charge in 1840. He contributed important articles to the "Methodist Quarterly." —His son, Thomas Emerson, journalist, b. in Baltimore, Md., in 1813, d. in Harford co., Md., 18 Aug., 1872, early became a local Methodist preacher, and also studied medicine and took his degree in Baltimore. His father was editor of the Baltimore "Christian Advocate and Journal," and young Bond became his efficient assistant, distinguished for humor and sarcastic power. In 1860, pending the difficulties that culminated in the civil war. he joined the southern Methodist church, and gave his abilities to the cause of the south. After the close of the war he was one of the originators of the "Episcopal Methodist," the organ of the southern church, but subsequently severed his connection with that paper and established another journal in the same interest. After publishing that for a short time he consolidated it with the " Southern Christian Advocate," published simultaneously in Baltimore and St. Louis, of which he was associate editor.—Another son, Hugh Lennox, jurist, b. in Baltimore, Md., 16 Dec, 1828; d. there, 24 Oct., 1893, was graduated at the New York university in 1848, returned to Baltimore, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1851, and practised in Baltimore. He took part in the Know-nothing movement. In March, 1860, he was appointed judge of the Baltimore criminal court, and on 5 Nov., 1861, was elected by the people to that office, which he held during the trying times of the war. After the massacre of national soldiers on 19 April, 1861, when the city authorities decided that no more northern troops should be allowed to pass through Baltimore, he charged the grand jury that those who took part in the riot were guilty of murder. The police commissioners made an order forbid- ding the display of any flag; but the seventy-five loyalists that were arrested under this order for raising the national standard were discharged on habeas corpus by Judge Bond. In later years, when several military commissioners undertook to sit in Baltimore and try citizens for offences against the United States, he charged the grand jury to indict the officers on these commissions, because they had no jurisdiction over persons not in the military service of the government, especially when the civil courts were open. Shortly before the close of his term. Gov. Swann claimed the right to remove the police commissioners and appoint others, and when the de facto commissioners fortified the station-houses, and armed the police