Biographical Sketch of Joshua Bond - Andrew County, Missouri

>From "History of Missouri, Andrew & DeKalb County" Published 1888

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Joshua Bond, a merchant of Amazonia, was born in Pickaway County, OH,
March 28, 1822.  He is the son of Kinsey G. and Elizabeth (McNaught)
Bond.  The father was born in Baltimore on May 18, 1800.  The mother
was born in Somerset County, PA., and died in Pickaway County, OH, in
September, 1823, when about twenty-one years of age.  In early life
the father worked at the carpenter's trade, but later engaged in
farming.  In the spring of 1825 he chose for his second wife Leah
Timmons, of Hardin County, OH.  She died about 1830.  After living a
single life for several years, he married again in 1838 in Andrew
County.  His only child, Joshua, received a fair education in the
schools of Ohio, Indiana and Missouri.  In the fall of 1834 he removed
with his father to Tippecanoe County, IN., and in September, 1838, they
came to Andrew County, where he has since resided.  When seventeen
years of age he began to teach school in Grundy County, MO., teaching 
the first district school in that county.  In 1852 he wedded Miss
Sarah J. Pullen.  He continued to teach in Grundy County till 1854, at
which time he returned to Andrew County, and taught until 1858, then 
had charge of it till 1860.  During the war he was connected with the
State Militia.  In the fall of 1866 he bought a farm, and moved on it
in 1867, but sold it after one year, and came back to Amazonia, and
with the exception of three years, has engaged in the mercantile
business, being three years at Nodaway Station.  He lost his wife on
July 28, 1878, and on October 5, 1882, chose for his second wife
Ludoska L. Reed, of Andrew County.  He is a member of the Episcopal
Church.  In politics he is a Republican.  He served as county judge
four years, and has been magistrate ten years.