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 HERRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 1864-70 she was director of physical culture in Vassar college; and since 1890 has been dean of Swarthmore college of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Words by the Way; and other works. Bond, George Phillips, educator, astronomer, author, was born in 1825 in Massachusetts. He was a professor in Harvard university. He was the author of On the Construction of the Rings of Saturn; The Method of Least Squares; and Mathematical Memoirs upon Mechanical Quadrationa. He died Feb. 17, 1865, in Cambridge, Mass. Bond, Henry, physician, genealogist, author, was born March 21, 1790, in Watertown, Mass. In 1819-59 he practiced medicine in Philadelphia; and for several years was president of the Philadelphia board of health. He published a thorough genealogical work entitled Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Mass., including Waltham and Weston. He died

May

4,

1859, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Bond, Holdsworth Wheeler, physician, surgeon, gynecologist, was born Sept. 29, 1867, in Port Republic, Md. In 1892 he established a practice of medicine in St. Louis, Mo. In 1891-96 he was an instructor of anatomy at the Marion-Sims college of medicine. He has

made a specialty of gynecology. In 1903-07 he was a member of the St. Louis board of health; and since 1906 has been health commissioner. Bond, Hugh Lenox, lawyer, jurist, was born on Dec. 16, 1828, in Baltimore, Md. In 1860-66 he was judge of the criminal court of Baltimore, Md. In 1870-93 he was United States circuit judge for the fourth judicial circuit. He soon after was called upon to preside in the famous Ku Klux trials. He died Oct. 24, 1893, in Baltimore, Md.

Bond, John Randolph, soldier, was born in New York. In 1861 he became first lieutenant in the twentieth regiment Ohio infantry; and in 1865 was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers.

He

died Oct.

S,

1874.

Bond, John R. S., journalist, founder, was born in 1822 in Ohio. In his youth he traveled on horseback through the wilderness to Kankakee river; and then in a skiflf down that river and the Mississippi to St. Louis. He owned at different times as many as eight western newspapers; and was the founder of the Louisville Courier-Journal. He died in December, 1872, in Chillioothe, Ohio. Bond, Lester Legrand, lawyer, legislator, founder, was born Oct. 27, 1829, in Ravenna, Ohio. In 1862-66 he was a member of the city council of Chicago; was presidential elector in 1868; and for two terms in 1866-70 was a member of the Illinois state legislature. He was one of the founders of the West Chicago park system was a member of the Chicago board of education ; and in 1872 was acting mayor of Chicago. He was a past commander of the Chicago commandery, knights templars; and in 1897 was elected vice-president of the Union league club. He died April 15, 1903, in Chicago, 111.

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Bond, Phineas, physician, founder, was born June 18 1717, in Maryland. He was one of the founders of the university of Pennsylvania. He was an intimate friend and associate of Benjamin Franklin. 1773, in Phildelphia, Pa.

He

died June

2,

Bond, Shadrack, congressman, governor, was born in Maryland, i&e was a member of the first legislative council of Ohio in 1799. In 1811-15 he was a territorial delegate from Illinois to the twelfth and thirteenth congresses; and in 1818-22 he was the first governor of Illinois. In 1814 he was appointed receiver of public moneys in Kaskaskia, 111. He died April 13, 1832, in Kaskaskia, 111. Bond, Thomas, physician, lecturer, was born in 1712^ in Maryland. He delivered the first clinical lectures in the Pennsylvania hospital; and was associated with Dr. Franklin and Dr. John Bartram, the botanist, in a literry society of that city. He died in 1784 in Philadelphia, Pa.

Bond, Thomas Emerson, clergyman, physiwas born in 1782 in Baltimore, Md. 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 died March 14, 1856, in New York. Bond, Ahomas Emerson, clergyman, journalist, was born in 1813 in Baltimore, Md. His father was editor of the Baltimore Christian Advocate and Journal; and young Bond becian, author,

came

his efiicient assistant, distinguished for sarcastic power. After the close

humor and

of the civil 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. He died Aug. 18, 1872, in Harford county, Md. Bond, William Cranch, astronomer, was born Sept. 8, 1789, in Portland, Maine. He superintended the erection of the Harvard observatory in 1839 and became its director. He distinguished himself by his observations on Saturn and celestial photography. He, with his son, discovered a satellite of Neptune and the eighth satellite of Saturn. He died Jan. 29, 1859, in Cambridge, Mass. Bonde, Thomas, lawyer, congressman. In 1801-03 he was a representative from Pennsyh'ania to the seventh congress. Bond, William Key, soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born in St. Marys county, Md. He moved to Ohio in 1812; and was at one time a colonel of militia. In 1835-41 he was a representative from Ohio to the twentyfourth, twenty-flfth and twenty-sixth cong;