Background
Bond was born to Jonas and Elizabeth Bond. And grew up on his father"s farm in Ravenna, Ohio.
Bond was born to Jonas and Elizabeth Bond. And grew up on his father"s farm in Ravenna, Ohio.
He received his law degree in 1853 and traveled to Chicago the following year. In 1854, he formed a legal partnership with Associate of Science Seaton. By 1858, he had partnered with East.A. West, a law firm which remained until 1891 when it became Bond & West.
Bond was one of the founders of the Republican party in Chicago.
In 1862 and 1864 he was elected a Chicago alderman. In 1867, he was elected to the Illinois General Assembly, and served until 1871.
When Chicago Mayor and newspaper publisher Joseph Medill traveled to Europe in 1873, Medill named Bond acting mayor of Chicago. When Medill"s term expired that same year, Bond ran as an independent on a law and order platform, supporting laws which would ban the sale of liquor on Sundays.
Bond married Mary Aspenwall and they had one daughter, Laura, who was born in 1867.
