The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-06-22


satisfactorily. and it finally became
necessary to remove the leg. Il was
announced at the time that the patient
had withstood ths shock wen and that
the surgeons were hopeful of his recov-
cry.
Major Pond was born i'm Allegheny
county. n y. june n. 1883 The Amer
icau branch of the Pond family was es-
tahlished by Princes Pond. who came
from England iu 1924 settled i'm Brad
ford. Conn. and reared family of ten
children. six sons and four daughters.
All but Nancy who died az Inc
age If lis. lived to have large families.
Willard IN n Pond father of James
Burton Pond. was born at Bristol,
Conn. ia 1907, and married Clarissa
Wo0dford. daughter Of James W0odfOrd,
September ]. 1889. They raised family
az eleven children four daughters and
seven sons James was the second of
FIVE children when his father emigrated
with his family. in the spring of 1874. to
Lake county H. where he worked land
ON shares for three years.
In 1847 he removed again. this time TO
the town of Alto Fond du Lac county,
Wis. then new territory where his
father pre-empted a quarter section of
government land and built log house.
12xl4 feet in which the six younger
children We're born
on this farm James experienced all the
hardshius of poverty and Of pioneer HE
in those early days when 1T took a.
long to get in communication with lHc
eastern. states as il does now to se@Q
@ letter around the world. Going ron
The cows. driving. breaking horses
moving hay. ra1ing and binding grain.
and keeping mp with his father 3
cradlire made farming rksome-
He left home at the age of "a, walk
fng twenty miles to Fond du Lac VIE.
.T.f frF
more congeuial mode of employment
His first ston was at printing Office.
10 which he was attracted by seeing a
hand ..raSs at work. AS he was stan1t
ing i'm She door of the printing office.
the uressman asked him If he waute I
70 work. and in less than ten minut s.
he had arranged with the proprietor OF
the Fountain city Herald to learn size
printers trade Tie served his appren-
ticeshin and ia 1856 at the age of 1s.
was journeyman printer. He subse-
Queutly worked in Oshkosh. Milwaukee
ana IdnesNllle, WIS., chicago. ST Paul.
ST. Louis. LeaVenWOrth and Lawrence
Aas.. and in Denver Colo. i'm 1852 Hi,
ventrresoue nature took him to Kan-
sas in the border rufiian times of 1896
80. and across the plains to Pixies Peak
in The summer of 1859. January 81 1853
hc married ait GAINESVILLE Wis Ann
h1ances Lynch, who died i'm Leaven
wor th, l>as.. December 3, 1871, leaving
a daughter.
The years ls60-'6l found him editing
the Markesan Journal in the village OF
Markcsan Green Lake county. Wis.
consiu- but when the civil war broke
out he closed his printing office and en-,
listed iu the Third Wisconsin cavalry
fic was commissioned second lieutenapt
ana captain Captain Pond command
ed the Third battalion of his regiment
which was stationed for more than two
years on the frontier of Kansas and
Missouri, enga ged i'm the guerrilla war;
fare of the border-a rerilous service
re-
both sides
In October. 1863. he was I'm command
at Baxter Springs, Kan. where he was
attaekea by tine guerrilla chief Guam
tteH. VINO was on his way south after
tn@ destruction of Lawrence. kan
Dressed In new federal uniforms. Guam
1reiis men marched into Captain Ponds
camp under the stars and stripes Tn
less time than it takes to write it, 1Ol
Of the lis ia the federal command 1.-ere
dead AT Quantrel's signal each euer-
rilla chose his man and shot him down
With the little band of remaining sol
dlers Captain Pond succeeded in re-
puising the enemy and held the post
three DAYS until relief came. When. al
the expiration of the three years term
the veteran regiment was reorganized
Captain Pond was commissioned major
lIe was discharged in October. 1865
having served four years.
After the war he engaged i'm the ner-
chantile business in Fort Scott until
1884. when he visited the east for tine
first time In 1874 Mayor Pond and
George Hathaway purchased the Rid
path lyceum bureau I'm Boston which
his old friend James Ridpath, whom he
had known in Kansas in 1856 had estab-
lished This partnership continued thres
years. Major Pond. however, thought
New York the only place to establish
himself and in 1879 opened an office in