Henry Whitelaw Bond (January 27, 1848 – September 28, 1919) was a justice of the

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from 1913 to 1919.

Biography

Born near Brownsville, Tennessee, to Thomas and Ellen Owen (Whitelaw) Bond,Albert Nelson Marquis, editor, ''The Book of St. Louisans: A Biographical Dictionary of Leading Living Men of St. Louis and Vicinity, Second Edition'' (1912), p. 69. He was educated in schools in Tennessee and at

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. He married Mary D. Miller in Bolivar, Tennessee on November 18, 1880. They had four children: Thomas, Irene (Mrs. Alleyn von Schrader), Whitelaw and Marion. After gaining

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in Tennessee, he practiced law there until 1879, then moved to St. Louis. In 1892, he was elected to a twelve-year term as a judge of the St. Louis Court of Appeals, beginning January 1, 1893. He resigned on October 7, 1901, to return to the practice of law. He formed a partnership with his son, Thomas, in June 1904, and then with Judge

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, forming the firm of Bond, Marshall & Bond. Marshall left in 1910, and the firm continued as Bond & Bond until April 11, 1911, when Bond was appointed a Supreme Court commissioner of Missouri. In 1912 he was elected to the Missouri Supreme Court for a term to run from 1913 to 1923, serving until he died in office in 1919, from "an attack of apoplexy".

References

Judges of the Supreme Court of Missouri 1848 births 1919 deaths Harvard University alumni People from Brownsville, Tennessee 19th-century American judges {{Missouri-state-judge-stub