Background
Pond, James Burton was born on December 25, 1889 in New York City. Son of Major James B(urton) and Martha Marion (Glass) Pond.
Pond, James Burton was born on December 25, 1889 in New York City. Son of Major James B(urton) and Martha Marion (Glass) Pond.
Educated Hasbrouck Institute, Jersey City, Cornell Univercity.
Editor, public “Program” magazine. Head Pond Lecture Bureau (estab. by father 1873) more than 30 years. Managed American Tours for Sir Rabindranath Tagore, Maurice Maeterlinck, Lord Dunsany, John Galsworthy, Philip Gibbs, John Masefield, “Ian Hay,” Helen Keller, Mistress Pankhurst, West. B. Yeats, Ruth Draper, Cornelia Otis Skinner, William Beebe, General Mitchell, Rear Admiral Byrd, Eddie Rickenbacker, Doctor Annie Besant, George West. Russell, others
United States Army, attached to headquarters, Camp Dix, New Jersey, 1918.
Fellow Royal Geography Society. Member of New York Zoöl. Society (life), Sigma Nu.
Clubs: National Arts (life), Circumnavigators (ex-president, life), Adventurers (ex-president), Dutch Treat, Town Hall (New York City).
Married Abbie Gregory Clarke. Married second, Joan Ellen Hansen. Children: Barbara Huntington, Jean Woodford, James Burton.