Henry Whitelaw BOND

  General Notes:

Obituary: A man of distinction and accomplishment who became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri, Henry Whitelaw Bond succumbed to death on September 28, 1919 in Jefferson County, Missouri. He is buried near his wife, Mary Dunlap Miller, in Polk Cemetery in Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tennessee. Mary's mother's first husband was Albert Thomas McNeal whose ancestry is entwined with the familial line of President James Knox Polk. (Mary was a child of her mother's second marriage to Judge Austin Miller.)

Henry's brief obituary appeared in the NEW YORK TIMES, New York City, New York on September 30, 1919.

Obituary from DeeAnna Allum Granston




BOOK: ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE HISTORY OF MISSOURI by Howard Louis Conrad, pages 318 and 319:

Bond, Henry Whitelaw, lawyer and jurist, was born near Brownsville, Tennessee, January 27, 1848, son of Thomas and Ellen (Whitelaw) Bond. His more remote ancestors in the paternal line were North Carolinians, while his mother's family went from Virginia to Tennessee. Both the Bond and Whitelaw families belonged to that physically and mentally vigorous Scotch-Irish element of the population of the Southern States, which has been a potent factor in advancing the civilization of this country and a dominant influence in government affairs. Until he was sixteen years of age Henry W. Bond resided in Tennessee and attended the public schools of that State. Coming then to St. Louis, he continued his studies at the City University, popularly known in those days as "Wyman's School," and later completed his scholastic education at Harvard College. After leaving Harvard he returned to Tennessee, where he studied law under the preceptorship of Judge Thomas J. Freeman, one of the noted lawyers of that State. In 1870, soon after he attained his majority, he was admitted to the bar in his native State, and began the practice of his profession there. At the end of nine years of active practice in Tennessee, in the course of which he demonstrated that he was admirably fitted for the conduct of litigation by natural endowments and educational attainments, he removed to St. Louis, and, although only thirty years of age, almost immediately impressed himself upon the bar of that city as a well rounded and well equipped lawyer, thoroughly at home in every department of professional work. Within a year after his coming to St. Louis be became associated professionally with Judge James L. Lindsley, and the law firm thus constituted was one of those most prominent at the St. Louis bar for a period of six years thereafter. In 1885 he was elected to membership in the State Legislature and served during the session of the Thirty-third General Assembly, distingishing himself as a legislator of practical ideas, forcefulness in debate and large influence in promoting the best interests of the State, as well as of his immediate constituency. At the close of his term of service in the Legislature he formed a law partnership with Charles Gibson and Charles Eldon Gibson, under the firm name of Gibson, Bond & Gibson, which continued in existence until 1892, at which time he entered upon the discharge of judicial duties. While practicing in this connection he was identified with many cases involving interests of large magnitude and gave special attention to that branch of the practice dealing with corporate bodies and corporation law. As a practioner he was noted for being exceedingly careful in the preparation of his cases, for the readiness and facility with which he comprehended every phase of a controversy, and his apt interpretation of the law. While he was an able jury lawyer, his clear and lucid arguments were peculiarly effective when addressed to the courts. These arguments, as well as his general methods of practice, evidenced the judicial cast of his mind, and impressed upon his associates at the bar his eminent fitness for the exercise of judicial functions, and in 1892 he was elected a member of the St. Louis Court of Appeals. As a jurist he has justified the expectations of his warmest friends and admirers, and has not only been a conspicuously able judge, but a thoroughly upright and impartial arbiter of affairs submitted to his judgment. Judge Bond married in 1880, Miss Mary Miller, daughter of Judge Austin Miller, of Bolivar, Tennessee, and has four children, named respectively, Thomas, Irene, Whitelaw and Marion Bond.




OBITUARY (Henry) from THE NEW YORK TIMES, New York City, New York, September 30, 1919:

Chief Justice Henry Whitelaw Bond

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., Sept. 29--Chief Justice Henry Whitelaw Bond of the Supreme Court of Missouri died at his home here yesterday after a suddent attack of apoplexy. He was 71 years old. He was born in Tennessee, was educated at Harvard, and after practicing for a time in Tennessee he moved to St. Louis, where he was for eight years on the St. Louis Court of Appeals bench until he was elected to the Supreme Court for a ten-year term in 1913.




1848 BIRTH of Henry Whitelaw Bond

Henry was a son of Thomas Bond and Ellen Whitelaw

1850 CENSUS, Tennessee, Haywood County, Brownsville ("Henry," age 2, with parents, "Thomas," age 27, "Farmer," born in North Carolina, and "Ellen," age 26, born in Virginia)

1860 CENSUS, Tennessee, Haywood County, Brownsville ("Henry," age 12, with parents) ("Bind" in some census indexes)

1870 CENSUS, Tennessee, Haywood County, Brownsville, P. O. Brownsville ("H. W.," age 22, "Lawyer," with parents)

1880 CENSUS, Missouri, Saint Louis County, Saint Louis, District 392 ("Henry W.," age 31, "Lawyer," is "boarder" in the household of William E. Jones)

1880 MARRIAGE of Henry Whitelaw Bond and Mary Dunlap Miller on November 18 in Hardeman County, Tennessee

1900 CENSUS, Missouri, St. Louis County, St. Louis Ward 25, District 378 ("Henry W.," age 52, born "January, 1848 in Tennessee") (wife "Mary D.," age 41, born "January, 1859 in Tennessee") [Mary was actually born in March]. (Mary is shown as the mother of 4 children, all 4 children living in the year 1900; she and Henry had been married 19 years)

1910 CENSUS, Missouri, St. Louis County, St. Louis Ward 17, District 263 ("Henry W.," age 60, "Lawyer, Office") (wife "Mary M.," age 49) (Mary is shown as the mother of 4 children, all 4 children living in the year 1910; she and Henry had been married 29 years)

1919 DEATH, Henry Whitelaw Bond, at 71 years 8 months 1 day

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1929 DEATH of wife, Mary Dunlap (Miller) Bond, at approximately 70 years

Henry married Mary Dunlap MILLER on November 18, 1880 in Hardeman County, Tennessee. (Mary Dunlap MILLER was born on March 11, 1859 in Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tennessee, died in February 1929 and was buried in Polk Cemetery, Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tennessee.)