Francis Bates Pond, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Francis Bates Pond

American politician

Date of Birth: 09-Aug-1825

Place of Birth: Ellisburg, New York, United States

Date of Death: 02-Nov-1883

Profession: lawyer, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Francis Bates Pond

  • Francis Bates Pond was a Republican politician from the state of Ohio.
  • He was Ohio Attorney General from 1870 to 1874. Pond was born August 9, 1825, at Ellisburg, Jefferson County, New York.
  • He entered Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, in 1841, and graduated with honors in 1846.
  • He spent the next three years in Kent, Ohio, one year as a teacher and two as a book-keeper for Charles and Marvin Kent.
  • In 1850 he went to Harmar, Ohio and taught classics at the Harmar Academy.
  • He began study of law in 1849 in Cleveland, and continued in Marietta in 1850.
  • He was admitted to the bar 1852 at Malta, Ohio, and three years later elected Prosecuting Attorney of Morgan County, Ohio.
  • During the Civil War, he served as a colonel with the Sixty-second Ohio Infantry, and August, 1864, at the Battle of Deep River, he was wounded, and lost sight in his left eye.
  • He resigned in November of that year.In 1867, he was elected to represent Morgan County in the Ohio House of Representatives for the Fifty-eighth General Assembly.
  • In 1869 and 1871 he won election as Ohio Attorney General.
  • In 1879 he was elected to the Ohio Senate from the Fourteenth district (Washington, Morgan and part of Noble County), for the Sixty-fourth General Assembly, and re-elected to the Sixty-fifth in 1881.He died November 2, 1883, at his home in Malta, Ohio.
  • He died as a result of the wound he received near his eye in the Civil War which he had suffered with for nineteen years.Pond was married to Eliza A.
  • Corner of Malta in 1854.
  • She died in January 13, 1866.
  • On May 21, 1867, he married his first wife's sister, Emma.
  • She died March 18, 1870.
  • He married Janet Alexander of Washington County, Pennsylvania in 1876.
  • His first wife had children named Mary Blanche and George Charles.
  • His second wife had a son named Francis Newell, who died in infancy.

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