Lake-Marin-Sonoma County CA Archives Biographies.....Bond, Thomas B. 1832 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

JUDGE THOMAS B. BOND, an attorney of Lakeport, is a native of Maryland, born
near Belaire, January 24, 1832. His father was one of the defenders of Fort
McHenry, in the war of 1812. He served as Deputy Register of Wills for
twenty-five years; and was also cashier of Havre de Grace Bank for a number of
years Thomas B. Bond, the subject of this sketch, received his education in the
schools in the vicinity of his birth. In 1850 he received an appointment from B.
H. Latrobe, in a corps of civil engineers, on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad,
which profession he followed until 1856. He then went to Mexico, Missouri, where
he studied law with Judge Edwards, for two years. He commenced practicing in
1858, in Audrain and Boone counties, Missouri, where he remained until 1861. In
that year he crossed the plains to California and engaged in the practice of law
and other pursuits, in Marin and Sonoma counties, for about one and a half
years. In 1863 he settled permanently in Ukiah, Mendocino County, where he
remained eighteen years engaged in the practice of law. In 1865 he was appointed
to fill the unexpired term of District Attorney for Mendocino County, and in the
fall of that year, was nominated and elected to the same office, on the
Democratic ticket. In the fall of 1867 he was re-elected for a second term. When
Judge Bond took the office of District Attorney, the finances of the county
where in a deplorable condition, warrants on her treasury being worth only about
sixty cents on the dollar. At the close of his term of office, the credit of the
county had been restored, and paper representing her indebtness was received at
par value. During his term of office there was a vast amount of criminal
business in that county, which necessitated the drawing of a large number of
indictments, none of which were ever set aside by either the District or Supreme
courts. In 1887 the County Superintendent of Schools, having resigned, a
gentleman who was appointed to till the vacancy refused to qualify. At the
urgent request of the' County Supervisors and teachers of the county, Judge Bond
consented to accept that office, which he filled for two years, in order that
the schools might be maintained. In 1873 he was offered the nomination for the
Assembly by the almost unanimous vote of the Democratic party. He, however,
preferring the practice of his profession, declined the nomination. In 1877 he
was elected to the office of County Judge, without opposition, which he held for
four years; no decision made by him, while presiding over this court, was
reversed. In 1877 he was elected President of the Bank of Ukiah, which position
he held for one year. In 1881 he went to Southern California, where he resided
at San Diego, Santa Barbara and other places. In 1883 he formed a law
partnership with Hon. G. W. Schell, at Modesto, Stanislaus County, with whom he
practiced a little more than five years. In 1888 he removed to Lake County, and
permanently settled in Lakeport, where he is now engaged in his profession. He
was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of the State of California, in
1865, and the Supreme Court of the United States in 1885. He voted for James
Buchanan for President, and has voted for every presidential nominee on the
Democratic ticket since that time.

  He was married in 1865, to Miss Nettie Siddons, a native of St. Louis,
Missouri. They have no living children. Judge Bond is a Past Master of Abel
Lodge, F. & A. M., of Ukiah, and has been a member of the Masonic fraternity for
the past thirty-four years.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from

Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California.

Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast
from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with
Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of
Prominent Citizens of To-day.

"A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendents." – Macauley.

CHICAGO
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1891.


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