Merced-Kings-Kern County CA Archives Biographies.....Bond, Lewis Robert 1842 - 1922
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Author: John Outcalt (1925)

REV. LEWIS ROBERT BOND

   Among the pioneer ministers of the eighties in California mention should be
made of the late Rev. Lewis Robert Bond, who was one of the outstanding figures
in the California Presbyterian Church and a man who spent his entire life doing
good for his fellow man and rearing a family.

   Rev. Lewis Robert Bond was born August 29, 1842, on his father's farm, not
far from Nashville, Tenn. In 1861, he entered the Confederate Army and served in
the cavalry until the end of the war, in 1865. Between this date and 1871, he
worked on his father's farm, at the carpenter's trade, and also taught school.
In 1871, while teaching school, he became a candidate for the ministry of the
Cumberland Presbyterian Church, before the McMinnville, Tenn., Presbytery; he
was licensed in 1872, and ordained in 1873. While serving churches near Lebanon,
Tenn., he was able to resume work in Cumberland University, which he had been
compelled to relinquish on account of the financial depression of 1873. He was
graduated from the Cumberland Theological Seminary in 1880, and was married the
same year to Miss Christina Hoodenpyl, of McMinnville, Tenn., who was a graduate
of, and later a teacher in, the Cumberland Female College at McMinnville, Tenn.

   After a year and a half of service in the churches of Marion Junction and
Pleasant Hill, in Alabama, he moved with his wife and infant son to California,
and became pastor of the churches at Plainsburg and Mariposa Creek, in Merced
County, near the present town of Le Grand. Thereafter he served churches at
Lemoore, Bakersfield, and Farmington. In 1893, he moved with his family to
Pomeroy, Wash., and there he remained two years. Subsequently, he moved his
family to the Willamette Valley in Oregon, where he served in succession
churches at Coburg, Woodburn, Sodaville, and Florence. He was honorably retired
from the ministry by the Willamette Presbytery of the reunited Presbyterian
Church, U. S. A., in 1911, with thirty-one and a half years of active service in
the ministry to his credit since his ordination.

   One year before his retirement he moved with his family from Florence to
Eugene, Ore., where he continued to reside until the year 1919, when he moved
with his wife to Le Grand, Cal. At the latter place he passed peacefully to his
final rest, December 18, 1922, at the age of eighty years, three months and
nineteen days. He is survived by his widow, and all five of their children: Mrs.
J. J. Baxter of Le Grand; Paul G., and Capt. Aubrey H. Bond of San Francisco,
Lewis A. Bond of Berkeley; and Prof. Jesse H. Bond, of the University of North
Dakota, at Grand Forks, N. D. Two of his sons, Aubrey H. and Lewis A., served as
commissioned officers with the A. E. F. in France. His outstanding
characteristics were honest faithfulness, strong common sense, and patience.
Mrs. Bond resides with her daughter, Mrs. J. J. Baxter near Le Grand, and is now
in her seventy-third year and hale and hearty.


Additional Comments:
From:

HISTORY OF
MERCED COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
WITH A
Biographical Review
OF
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been
Identified with Its Growth and Development
from the Early Days to the Present

HISTORY BY
JOHN OUTCALT

ILLUSTRATED COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1925


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