Stephens-Franklin-Habersham County GaArchives News.....Biographical Sketches. Two of "Old Franklin's" Sons--Col. Claude Bond November 19, 1908 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: June McNew http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00030.html#0007420 January 23, 2012, 8:24 pm The Toccoa Record, Toccoa, Stephens County, Georgia November 19, 1908 The Toccoa Record, 19 Nov 1908, p. 1. Biographical Sketches. Two of “Old Franklin’s” Sons Col. Claude Bond. Endowed with unusual mental and moral qualifications, with an indomitable will-power and a corresponding ambition, Col. Bond’s personality and the things he has accomplished is worthy of record, notwithstanding that he is one of the youngest lawyers in this section. He was born in Canon, Ga., January 14, 1881, and is the son of the late Hon. S.P. Bond, for a number of years one of Franklin’s foremost and honored citizens. Col. Bond’s early years were spent on the farm and in his father’s store. As a boy he attended the Canon schools and at the age of 17 entered college at Dahlonega. After taking one y ear at the North Georgia Agricultural College he entered the Sophomore Class at the University of Georgia, where he graduated near the head of a large class of sixty. While at the University he won a goodly number of honors. He was Sophomore speaker and won the Sophomore Debaters’ medal in 1901. In 1902 he was a member of the Advisory Board. In 1903, his senior year, he was editor-in-chief of the “Red and Black” and business manager of the “Pandora.” Col. Bond was a member of the athletic council. He was a member of Phi Kappa Literary Society and was vice-president and president of the society in 1903. He was also the champion debater in 1902, and belonged to the Sigma Nu fraternity. From the University he went to the Georgia Miliary Academy as professor of Latin and Greek, a position which he filled with marked ability for three years. He founded “The Gamilicad,” which is one of the best college papers in the South. He resigned at G.M.A. to accept a scholarship to Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., where he took a course in law and was a candidate for the M.A. degree, and would have gotten it in June, but came back to Georgia in March to study the Georgia code in order to be admitted to the bar in June. In June, 1906, he was signally complimented by Governor Terrell in that he was appointed one of the visitors on the board to inspect the University in Athens, the oldest State university in America. This honor was given him just three years after his graduation from this institution. He came to Toccoa in April, 1907, and associated himself with Judge J.B. Jones, where he has since remained. He was elected president of the Chautauqua Association here this year, and has gotten up a splendid program for the benefit of the people in this section who are interested in this kind of educational work. Col. Bond was married in June, 1906, to Miss Bertha Kimsey, daughter of Judge J.J. Kimsey, of Cornelia. He has already distinguished himself as a public speaker and has been asked to deliver the Memorial address at Crawfordville next May. In his profession of law he is rapidly forging himself to the front. Those who have heard him before the bar or in p ublic addresses are convinced of his masterly ability and pleasing address. [The other biography on this date was of Dr. Clarence Ayers. Photos of Dr. Ayers and Col Bond appeared at the top of this article.] Transcribed by June Coker McNew, January 2011. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/stephens/newspapers/biograph3181nw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 3.9 Kb