Bond, Alvan, Dd

Bond, Alvan, D.D., a Congregational minister, was born at Sutton, Mass., April 27, 1793, and graduated from Brown. University in 1815. His first settlement was at Sturbridge, where he remained ten years, and then accepted a professorship in the Bangor Theological Seminary, Me. In 1835 he returned to the active duties of the ministry, and became pastor of the Church at Norwich, Conn., where he continued twenty-eight years, resigning in i864. He died July 19, 1882. Dr. Bond was a man of high scholarly and biblical attainments, and was the author of a History of the Bible. See Providence Journal, July 21, 1882. (J. C. S.)