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BOND, Henry, physician, was born at Water- town, Mass.. March 21, 1790 ; son of Henry and Hannah (Stearns) Bond, and grandson of Wil- liam Bond, a colonel in the revolutionary army. Wlien lie was very young he removed with his parents to Maine, and was prepared for college at Hebron academy. He was graduated from Dartmouth college in 1813 and studied medicine until 1815, when he was made a tutor. He re- signed in 1816, and in December of that year received his M.D. degree. He practised at Con- cord, N. H., until 1819, going then to Philadel- phia, where he studied for a year in the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania. He then began practice in Philadelphia, where he spent the rest of his life. He was a prominent member of many me- dical and scientific societies. In 1825 he was elected a fellow of the Philadelphia college of physicians, its secretary in 1832, and a censor in 1844. He devoted much time to genealogical in- vestigations, and prepared " Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Mass., including Waltimm and Wes- ton " (1856). He died in Philadelphia, May 4, 1859.

BOND, Hugh Lennox, jurist, was born in Baltimore, Md., Dec. 16, 1828; son of Thomas Emerson Bond, Sr., journalist. He was grad- uated from the University of the city of New York in 1848, and he was admitted to the Balti- more bar in 1851. He became a judge of the criminal court in 1860, and held that office for eight years, during which time he took a promi- nent part in public movements. He was a stanch Unionist, despite the fact that Maryland's sympa- thies were largely with the South. In 1870 he was appointed, by President Grant, judge for the fourth judicial circuit of the U. S., and in this capacity he presided in the famous Ku-Klux trials in North and South Carolina. In 1876 he decided the case of the South Carolina presiden- tial electoral board, which had been sentenced to imprisonment by the supreme court and had been released on habeas corpus. Judge Bond gave as his decision that the state court had no authority to an-est the board for "'officially exercising a Federal function." He retained his seat upon the bench of the fourth circuit until his death, which occurred at Baltimore, Md., Oct. 27, 1893.

BOND, Shadrach, governor of Illinois, was born in Maryland. He removed to the territory of Illinois, settling at Kaskaskia. where he served in the legislature of the territory, and in 1812 was sent as a delegate to the house of representa- tives, where he remained two years. In 1814 he was elected receiver of public moneys. In 1818, on the admission of Illinois into the Union as a state, he was elected its first governor and lield the office by re-election until 1822. He died at Kaskaskia, 111., April 13, 1832.

BOND, William Cranch, astronomer, was born at Portland, Me., Sept. 9, 1789. In 1802 he was apprenticed to his father, a watchmaker, and continued in the business during half a cen- tury. Early in life he evinced a deep interest in astronomy, and established at Dorchester one of the earliest private observatories in America. In 1815 he was commissioned by the corporation of Harvard college to examine and make plans of the observatories in England, and to collect information relative to the selection of instru- ments proper to a contemi^lated astronomical observatory for the college. In 1838 he was appointed by the government to conduct a series of astronomical and meteorological observations, in connection with the exploring expedition to the South seas, under the command of Lieut. Charles Wilkes, U. S. N. In 1839 the corpora- tion of Harvard college engaged him to superin- tend the erection of the observatory, of which he was director from 1840 until his death. He became especially well known among astrono- mers by his observations on Saturn, liaving, in connection with his son, George Phillips, discov- ered a satellite of that planet, and also the moon of Neptune. He died at Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 29, 1859.

BONER, John Henry, editor and poet, was born in Salem, N.C., Jan, 31, 1845, son of Thomas and Phoebe (Nading) Boner ; and grandson of Isaac and Dorothea (Elrod) Boner, and of John and Hannah Nading. He received an academic edu- cation and private instruction and subsequently learned the printer's trade. In 1867 he edited the Salem Observer and the Asheville Pioneer, North Carolina, was assistant secretary to the state constitutional convention of 1868 and chief clerk of the North Carolina house of representa- tives, 1869-70. He was employed in the civil service at Washington, D. C, 1871-'87, and then removed to New York, where he became a mem- ber of the staffs of the "Century Dictionary" and of the "Library of American Literature." He was literary editor of the New York World, 1891-'92, which post he resigned to join the editorial staff of the " Standard Dictionary." He edited the Literary Digest, 1894-'95, and was on the editorial staff of Appletou's "Annual Cyclo- paedia " from 1896. He subsequently entered the employ of the Government printing office at Washington, D. C. He was married in 1870 to Lot- tie Smith of Raleigh, N. C. He was elected a mem- ber of the Authors club and is the author of "Whispering Pines"' (poems. 1883), and contri- butions to the magazines. He died in 1903.

BONHAM, Milledge L., governor of South Carolina, was born in Edgefield county, S. C, May 6, 1815. In 1834 he was graduated from the University of South Carolina, and three years