Stephens-Franklin-Habersham County GaArchives News.....Biographical Sketches.  Two of "Old Franklin's" Sons--Col. Claude Bond November 19, 1908
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The Toccoa Record, Toccoa, Stephens County, Georgia November 19, 1908
The Toccoa Record, 19 Nov 1908, p. 1.  

Biographical Sketches.  Two of Old Franklin's Sons


Col. Claude Bond.  Endowed with unusual mental and moral qualifications, with 
an indomitable will-power and a corresponding ambition, Col. Bond's 
personality and the things he has accomplished is worthy of record, 
notwithstanding that he is one of the youngest lawyers in this section.

He was born in Canon, Ga., January 14, 1881, and is the son of the late Hon. 
S.P. Bond, for a number of years one of Franklin's foremost and  honored 
citizens.

Col. Bond's early years were spent on the farm and in his father's store.  As 
a boy he attended the Canon schools and at the age of 17 entered college at 
Dahlonega.  After taking one y ear at the North Georgia Agricultural College 
he entered the Sophomore Class at the University of Georgia, where he 
graduated near the head of a large class of sixty.  While at the University he 
won a goodly number of honors.  He was Sophomore speaker and won the Sophomore 
Debaters' medal in 1901.  In 1902 he was a member of the Advisory Board.  In 
1903, his senior year, he was editor-in-chief of the Red and Black and 
business manager of the Pandora.  Col. Bond was a member of the athletic 
council.  He was a member of Phi Kappa Literary Society and was vice-president 
and president of the society in 1903.  He was also the champion debater in 
1902, and belonged to the Sigma Nu fraternity.

From the University he went to the Georgia Miliary Academy as professor of 
Latin and Greek, a position which he filled with marked ability for three 
years.  He founded The Gamilicad, which is one of the best college papers in 
the South.  He resigned at G.M.A. to accept a scholarship to Harvard 
University, Cambridge, Mass., where he took a course in law and was a 
candidate for the M.A. degree, and would have gotten it in June, but came back 
to Georgia in March to study the Georgia code in order to be admitted to the 
bar in June.

In June, 1906, he was signally complimented by Governor Terrell in that he was 
appointed one of the visitors on the board to inspect the University in 
Athens, the oldest State university in America.  This honor was given him just 
three years after his graduation from this institution.

He came to Toccoa in April, 1907, and associated himself with Judge J.B. 
Jones, where he has since remained.

He was elected president of the Chautauqua Association here this year, and has 
gotten up a splendid program for the benefit of the people in this section who 
are interested in this kind of educational work.

Col. Bond was married in June, 1906, to Miss Bertha Kimsey, daughter of Judge 
J.J. Kimsey, of Cornelia.

He has already distinguished himself as a public speaker and has been asked to 
deliver the Memorial address at Crawfordville next May.  In his profession of 
law he is rapidly forging himself to the front.  Those who have heard him 
before the bar or in p ublic addresses are convinced of his masterly ability 
and pleasing address.

[The other biography on this date was of Dr. Clarence Ayers.  Photos of Dr. 
Ayers and Col Bond appeared at the top of this article.]


Transcribed by June Coker McNew, January 2011.  




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