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Bond, Hugh Lennox – Bonner, Edward L
Bond, Hugh Lennox
lawyer, jurist, was born Dec. 16, 1828, in Baltimore, Md.
In 1860 he was appointed judge of the criminal court of Baltimore, and in 1861 was elected to the same position, and served until 1868. In 1870 he was appointed United States circuit judge for the fourth judicial circuit, and soon after assuming the duties of his office he was called upon to preside in the famous Ku Klux trials.
Bond, John R. S
journalist, was born in 1822 in Ohio. In his youth he traveled 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. He died December, 1872, in Chillicothe, Ohio.
Bond, Shadrack
legislator, congressman, governor, was born in Maryland. He was a member of the first legislative council of Ohio in 1799; was elected a delegate to congress from the territory of Illinois from 1811 to 1815; and was the first governor under the state constitution. In 1814 he was appointed receiver of public moneys in Kaskaskia, Ill. He died April 13, 1832, in Kaskaskia, Ill.
Bond, Thomas
physician, lecturer, was born in 1712 in Maryland. 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. He died in 1784 in Philadelphia, Pa.
Bond, William Cranch
astronomer, was born Sept. 8, 1789, in Portland, Maine. 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.
Bond, William Key
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born in St. Marys county, Md. He emigrated to Ohio in 1812; studied law and settled in the practice of the profession at Chillicothe, and subsequently at Cincinnati. He was at one time a colonel of militia; and was a representative in congress from Ohio from 1835 to 1841. He died Feb. 17, 1864, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Bonebrake, George Henry
soldier, lawyer, merchant, banker. He won brevet as lieutenant-colonel, and later received from the war department the medal of honor. In 1883 he established the Los Angeles National bank, of which he has since been president to date. He has also established first national banks in Pasadena, Pomona, Riverside, Santa Ana, and Santa Monica, a state bank in Santa Paula, and the Savings bank of Southern California and the State Loan and Trust Co. in Los Angeles.
Boner, John Henry
poet, was born in 1845 in North Carolina. He is a poet and littérateur of New York city; and the author of Whispering Pines, a volume of poems.
Bonnell, John Mitchell
college president, was born April 16, 1820, in Pennsylvania. He was a minister in Frankfort, Ky.; president of several female colleges; and in 1859 accepted an election to the presidency of Wesleyan Female college, where he remained for the last eleven years of his life. He died at the college in September, 1871.
Bonner, Edward L
merchant, banker, was born Aug. 18, 1834, in Orwell , N. Y. He is the principal owner of the present Missoula Mercantile Co., the largest and most influential house of wholeof wholesale and retail grocers in the northwest.