Background
Bond was born November 1, 1865, at Rushford, Allegany County, New York, and was the son of Judge Hiram G. Bond and Laura A. (Higgins) Bond.
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Career
Their dog was the inspiration for his novel The Call of the Wild. After preparation at Saint Paul"s School, Concord, New Hampshire, he took the Select course in the Sheffield Scientific School within Yale University. Upon graduation he spent some time in the coal fields of Alabama, in the service of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company.
Louis Whitford Bond then went to the Pacific coast, and for eighteen years he was closely connected with the interests of that section.
At the same time he took a course in mining engineering at Stanford University, and thereafter gave his attention chiefly to mines and their development. During much of the fall of 1897 and the spring of 1898 the attendant at their cabin on the slope above Dawson was the aspiring author Jack London.
On the opening of, Bond was highly successful as a mining engineer and became financially interested in a number of mines. He was identified with all the interests of the camp.
During the last year he had spent much time in the examination of mining properties in the vicinity of Death Valley, and in the oil fields at Mono Lake, California
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Bond died at his home in Berkeley, California, July 27, 1908, after an illness of several months from cancer of the stomach. His burial was in Seattle, Washington. He was in his 43d year.
