Francis Bates Pond
Francis Bates Pond | |
|---|---|
Edward F. Noyes | |
| Preceded by | William H. West |
| Succeeded by | John Little |
| Member of the Ohio House of Representatives from the Morgan County district | |
| In office January 6, 1868 – January 2, 1870 | |
| Preceded by | Thomas I. Williams |
| Succeeded by | Richard Stanton |
| Member of the Ohio Senate from the 14th district | |
| In office January 5, 1880 – November 2, 1883 | |
| Preceded by | John Irvine |
| Succeeded by | Gilbert Smith |
| Personal details | |
| Born | August 9, 1825 Ellisburg, New York |
| Died | November 2, 1883 (aged 58) Malta, Ohio |
| Resting place | Malta Cemetery |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouses |
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| Children | three |
62nd Ohio Infantry | |
Francis Bates Pond was a
Pond was born August 9, 1825, at
In 1867, he was elected to represent Morgan County in the Ohio House of Representatives for the Fifty-eighth General Assembly.[2][3] In 1869[4] and 1871[5] he won election as Ohio Attorney General.[2] In 1879 he was elected to the Ohio Senate from the Fourteenth district (Washington, Morgan and part of Noble County), for the Sixty-fourth General Assembly, and re-elected to the Sixty-fifth in 1881.[2][6]
He died November 2, 1883, at his home in Malta, Ohio.[2] He died as a result of the wound he received near his eye in the Civil War which he had suffered with for nineteen years.[1]
Pond was married to Eliza A. Corner of Malta in 1854. She died on January 13, 1866. On May 21, 1867, he married his first wife's sister, Emma. She died March 18, 1870. He married Janet Alexander of Washington County, Pennsylvania in 1876. His first wife had children named Mary Blanche and George Charles. His second wife had a son named Francis Newell, who died in infancy.[1]
Notes
- ^ a b c d Robertson 1886 : 259-261
- ^ a b c d e Smith 1898 : 270
- ^ Ohio 1917 : 289
- ^ 1869: Pond 235,285 Democrat John M. Connell 227,903 from Smith 1898 : 268
- ^ 1871: Pond 237,718 Democrat Edward S. Wallace 218,077 from Smith 1898 : 286
- ^ Ohio 1917 : 244,247
References
- Ohio General Assembly (1917). Manual of legislative practice in the General Assembly. State of Ohio.
- Smith, Joseph P, ed. (1898). History of the Republican Party in Ohio. Vol. I. Chicago: the Lewis Publishing Company.
- Robertson, Charles (1886). History of Morgan County, Ohio, with Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Some of its Pioneers and Prominent Men. Chicago: L H Watkins and Co. pp. 259–261.
- Francis Bates Pond at Find a Grave
