Biography of Ulysses S Bond, St Francis County, AR

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Submitted by: Paul V Isbell
        Date: 19 Nov 2008
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U. S. Bond, still adding to the success of his father, Scott, and brother, Theo,
he was born Aug. 1, 1897. From 1913 to 1917, he studied at Morehouse College in
Atlanta, Ga.. On leaving Morehouse, Ulysses S. Bond completed a business course
at Oberlin Business College and then joined his father and brother's firm, Scott
Bond & Sons, as junior partner. Since U. S. Bond joined the firm, the two senior
partners have died; the partnership has been dissolved; and U. S. Bond is
operating the various businesses with his affable and efficient wife, the former
Cliffie Carter, whom he married April 19, 1926. He ceased operating the farm,
renting it out, and mainly concentrated on Bondol Labs, and has opened a motel,
known as the U. S. Bond Motel on Highway 70 between Madison and Forrest City.
Mrs. Bond is active in the local and county schools, the Red Cross,
tuberculosis, Infantile Paralysis, and United Negro College Fund. She is a
member of the Madison Light church, local PTA President for fourteen years, and
received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from A. M. & N. College at Pine
Bluff. She is a former teacher of english and history in the Booker T.
Washington High School in Memphis.


SOURCE:
HISTORY of ST. FRANCIS COUNTY, ARKANSAS, 1954 - Robert W. Chowning

Copyright, with Permission: Weston McCollum Lewey, Publisher
-Times Herald Publishing-Forrest City, Arkansas