Francis Bates Pond

Francis Bates Pond

Signature of Francis Bates Pond

Francis Bates Pond (born August 9, 1825 in Ellisburg , New York , † November 2, 1883 in Malta , Ohio ) was an American lawyer , officer and politician of the Republican Party . He was Attorney General of Ohio from 1870 to 1874 .

Career

Francis Bates Pond began attending Oberlin College in 1841 , where he graduated in 1846. His student days were overshadowed by the economic crisis of 1837 and the following years by the Mexican-American War . He spent the next three years in Kent, Ohio, including one year as a teacher and two years as an accountant with Charles and Marvin Kent . In 1850 he moved to Harmar, Ohio, where he taught classical philology at the Harmar Academy . Pond began studying law in Cleveland in 1849 and continued his studies in Marietta in 1850. He was admitted to the bar in Malta in 1852 and was elected prosecuting attorney in Morgan County, Ohio three years later . During the Civil War he served as a colonel in the Ohio 62nd  Infantry Regiment . In the following years he took part in the Battle of the Deep River in August 1864 , where he was wounded and lost his sight in his left eye. In November 1864 he left the army.

In 1867 he was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives for Morgan County . He was elected Attorney General of Ohio in 1869 and re-elected in 1871. In his first election he defeated the Democrat John M. Connell by 235,285 to 227,903 votes and in his second election the Democrat Edward S. Wallace with 237,718 to 218,077 votes. In 1879 he was elected to the Ohio Senate for the 14th district, which included Washington County , Morgan County and part of Noble County , and in 1881 he was re-elected. Pond died on November 2, 1883 at his home in Malta as a result of his civil war wound which he received near his eye.

family

He was married three times. In 1854 he married Eliza A. Corner from Malta. She died on January 13, 1866. The couple had two children named Mary Blanche and George Charles. After the death of his first wife, he married her sister Emma on May 21, 1867. She died on March 18, 1870. He and his second wife had a son named Francis Newell, who died in childhood. He then married in 1876 Janet Alexander from Washington County ( Pennsylvania ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Charles Robertson: History of Morgan County, Ohio, with Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men , LH Watkins & Company, 1886, pp. 259-261
2. ^ ^{A b c d} Joseph Patterson Smith: History of the Republican Party in Ohio , Volume 1, Lewis Publishing Company, 1898, pp. 268, 270, and 286
3. ^ ^{A b} Manual of Legislative Practice in the General Assembly of Ohio , Westbote Company, 1917, p. 289

Web links

• Francis Bates Pond in the database of Find a Grave (English)