Background
He was born on March 11, 1837 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, the son of Moses and Nancy (Adams) Pond, and a descendant of Daniel Pond who settled in Dedham, Massachussets, about 1652.
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George Edward Pond
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George attended the high school and the Latin School of Boston. In 1858 he graduated from Harvard, and two years afterward received the degree of bachelor of laws. While at Harvard, he had the privilege of attending one of the first classes conducted by James Russell Lowell in the study of Dante - an experience which Pond was later to record in "Lowell at Harvard, " a paper published in The First Book of the Authors Club; Liber Scriptorum (1893).
Career
Pond was entering upon the practice of law when the Civil War broke out. Giving up his chosen profession, to which he never returned, he served from 1862 to 1864 as first lieutenant of the 45th Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers.
His resignation from the army in 1864 and his acceptance of the associate editorship of the Army and Navy Journal marked a turning point in his career, for it was now that his literary and journalistic abilities began rapidly to mature.
Leaving the Army and Navy Journal in 1868, he served for the next two years on the editorial staff of the New York Times. In 1870 he removed to Philadelphia, where he became editor-in-chief of the Record, a daily newspaper. When in 1877 the Record changed proprietors, Pond resumed an editorial connection with the Army and Navy Journal which lasted for probably two years.
About 1880 he became an editorial writer on the New York Sun, and retained this position until his death. In the midst of these journalistic duties he found time to write for the Galaxy (May 1868 - Jan. 1878) a series of light essays on topics of current interest, which appeared each month under the title "Drift-Wood, " and were signed "Philip Quilibet. "
His sudden death at his summer home at Como, New Jersey, was due to heart disease.
Achievements
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George Edward Pond was the editor of the Army and Navy Journal, his especially noteworthy were the accounts of General Sherman's movements while lost in Georgia during his famous march to the sea. He was well-known as the author of Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia for the article on Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, and he also published The Shenandoah Valley in 1864.
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Membership
Prior to his death he became a member of the Authors Club.
Personality
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According to The Sun, New York, "Modest to an extreme that permitted the ful revelation of his ability only to those who knew him intimately, conscientious, of the most sensitive honor, faithful to every duty. George Pond (was) one of the best types of an American gentleman".
Connections
In 1866 Pond married Emilie Guerber, who died in 1880.
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American