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Notes: See also:
Appleton’s Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Six volumes. Edited by James Grant Wilson and John Fiske. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1888-1889. Reprint. Detroit: Gale Research, 1968. (ApCAB)
Biographical Dictionary of Southern Authors. Compiled by Lucian Lamar Knight. Atlanta: Martin & Hoyt Co., 1929. Reprint. Detroit: Gale Research, 1978. Originally published as “Library of Southern Literature, Volume 15, Biographical Dictionary of Authors.” (BiDSA)
Dictionary of American Medical Biography. Lives of eminent physicians of the United States and Canada, from the earliest times. By Howard A. Kelly and Walter L. Burrage. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1928. Reprint. Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands: Longwood Press, 1979. (DcAmMeB)
A Dictionary of North American Authors Deceased before 1950. Compiled by W. Stewart Wallace. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1951. Reprint. Detroit: Gale Research, 1968. (DcNAA)
Drake’s Dictionary of American Biography. Including men of the time, containing nearly 10,000 notices of persons of both sexes, of native and foreign birth, who have been remarkable, or prominently connected with the arts, sciences, literature, politics, or history, of the American continent. By Francis S. Drake. Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1872. Reprint. Detroit: Gale Research, 1974. (Drake)
The Methodists. By James E. Kirby, Russell E. Richey, and Kenneth E. Rowe. Denominations in America, no. 8. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996. Biographies begin on page 257. (Meth)
The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Volume 11. New York: James T. White & Co., 1901. Reprint. Volumes 1-50. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms, 1967-1971. Use the Index to locate biographies. (NatCAB 11)
The Encyclopedia of World Methodism. Two volumes. Edited by Nolan B. Harmon. Nashville, TN: United Methodist Publishing House, 1974. (EncWM) Biography contains portrait.
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Dates: 1782-1856
Notes: BOND, Thomas Emerson (1782-1856), was born in Baltimore in 1782. He was a founder of the College of Medicine of Maryland (1807), its first professor of materia medica, resigning the next year, and moving to the country because of ill-health. In 1812 he was a surgeon of cavalry in Harford County, Maryland. Bond’s title of M.D. was bestowed by an act of assembly of the Maryland legislature at the same time that the degree was given to John Shaw and William Donaldson, the only instance of the sort on record (Cordell). He received the honorary degree of M.D. from the University of Maryland in 1819, and the degree of D.D.; he was a local preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church. He practiced medicine in Baltimore, and was professor in the Washington Medical College (1832-34); president of the Board of Health, Baltimore, and of the Board of Trustees, Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, 1839.
In 1830-31 he edited “The Itinerant” and in 1840-52, edited “The Christian Advocate and Journal” (New York).
He was called “Defender of the Church,” a title given because of his zeal and conspicuous ability.
He died in New York March 14, 1856.
Source: Kelly, Howard A. and Burrage, Walter J., Dictionary of American Medical Biography: Lives of Eminent Physicians of the United States and Canada, From the Earliest Times [reprint of 1928 edition] Boston: Milford House: 121
