Dr Addison Joseph Brown

1860 Town Of Russia, Herkimer, New York po Gransville Joseph A Brown M 40 Connecticut physiciian Mary J Brown F 36 New York Adda Brown F 11 New York Francis Brown F 3 New York Allen Eanos M 69 New York Mary Dorr F 60 New York

1870 2nd ward Memphis, Shelby Tenn hh 481 Mary Brown F 40 New York photograph Ada Brown F 20 New York indexed as Frank Brown M 13 New York Nettie Brown F 10 New York

12 Jul 1865 - Humboldt, Allen, Kansas, Hotel S N Howe hotel keeper Joseph Bond 42 editor pub real estate $2000 800 Penn single

Kansas marriages Name: Joseph Bond Birth Date: 1823 Age: 45 Spouse's Name: Sarah Jane Turney Spouse's Birth Date: 1826 Spouse's Age: 42 Event Date: 01 Jan 1868 Event Place: Allen, Kansas

• ***** Humboldt Union of September 24, 1931, and February 9, 1933:

Late in 1868 there was a movement within the county in favor of bridges, the old ferry being too slow and uncertain. On January 27, 1869, a county election was held to vote on the proposition of issuing bonds to the amount of $35,000 for the purpose of building half a dozen bridges, one of which was to span the Neosho at Humboldt. Evidently the taxpayers did not look with favor upon the proposition, for the bonds were badly defeated; out of a total of 406 votes cast, only 29 were in favor of the bond issue. Matters dragged along until the following year when the Humboldt Bridge Co. was organized on January 25, 1869. The capital stock of the company was $20,000, in 200 shares. The company proposed to build a bridge over the Neosho at the juncture and intersection of Bridge street with the river in Humboldt. Nine directors were to manage the company's affairs, those named for the first year being W.W. Curdy, C.H. Pratt, Watson Stewart, Peter Long, Chas. Fussman, G.P. Smith, Moses Neal, Wm. Wakefield and E.C. Amsden. This charter was filed with the secretary of state, January 28, 1870.[56] Upon the election of officers Maj. Joseph Bond was chosen president and W.W. Curdy,[57] secretary. Work started on the bridge during the summer of 1870, and it was completed by September, following. The Union Pacific, Southern branch, now the M.-K.-T., reached Humboldt with its passenger trains in April, 1870, and while the bridge was under construction, traffic used Thurston ford if the water was low and the ferry if the water was high. The bridge, costing originally $9,000, was a one-arch affair and was planned to carry a maximum load of not to exceed 2,500 pounds. It was operated as a toll bridge up to the time it was taken over by the county. Free bridges had been built above and below Humboldt, and the toll bridge was driving trade elsewhere; therefore there was nothing else to be done but to secure the bridge from the Humboldt Bridge Co., eliminate the toll and make it free. This was done in 1881. For nearly a third of a century more it was used, when on February 3, 1933, the old steel structure was removed from its supports and allowed to plunge into the waters of the Neosho to make room for a modern new concrete arch bridge.

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"Some Brown genealogy : being some of the descendants of John Brown, one of the early settlers of Reading, Mass."  Gc 929.2 B8138W 1507355 GENEALOGY COLLECTION  ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY Brown Genealogy BEING SOME OF THE DESCENDANTS OF JOHN BROWN, ONE OF THE EARLY SETTLERS OF READING, MASS.  COMPILED BY CHARLES C. WHITNEY. Printed Privately. NEW YORK 1897. 113. (87.) Hon. Joseph Addison Brown, M. D. (Joseph, Joseph, Briant, Nathaniel, John), b. 21 May, 1814, in Thompson Parish, Killingly Tp., Conn., m. 1 June, I841, in Poland, N. Y., Mary Jane Daniels. He was educated at Monroe Academy, Rochester, N. Y., and Philips Academy, Andover, Mass., and then studied medicine at Geneva Medical College, Geneva, N. Y., from which he received the degree of M. D. He practiced medicine in Rochester, N. Y., about ten years, and then went to Philadelphia and took a course of law  lectures, being a classmate of the late Hon. Samuel Randall. Returning to Rochester, he opened a law office. He spent some time in California in 1848, 1850 and 1856. In 1862-63 he again started for California, but stopped in Kansas and settled at Humboldt — at that time the largest and most prosperous town of the State. He was interested in almost every local interest, and people who knew him in the business world considered him a just man, and his word as  good as his bond. He was a member of the Kansas Legislature in 1865-6; in the early seventies built the bridge across the Neosho River ; was for many years Vice-President of the First National Bank ; for some years owned and edited the Humholdt Times, and was Justice of the Peace about twelve years. He was very successful in business, and in 1894, in qualifying on a bond, he stated that he possessed nearly 100,000 acres of land unincumbered. He possessed a fine general education and a fine general library, many of whose volumes bear evidence of the wide range of his learning. His copy of the first edition of Webster's Dictionary has many marginal annotations, unique uses of language, original definitions and scholarly derivations of obscure words whose origin is always, and will always be, questioned. He was a tall, military-looking man, and was usually called " Major." His wife d. 2 June, 1891, at the residence of her daughter in Salt Lake City. He d. 5 Jan., 1895, Humboldt, Kansas.  CHILDREN.  114. L— Ada Eugenia, b. 21 May, 1850, d. 18 Aug., 1878, unm.  115. IL— Frances Augusta, b. 17 May, I858, d. 3 Aug., 1878, unm.  116. IlL— Anlojnette Elizabeth, b. 23 June, I861, in Poland, Herkimer Co., N. Y. Is a graduate of Michigan University. She m. 1st Dec, 1889, in Chicago, III.,  Clesson Selwyn Kinney, attorney and counselor at law, and author of an exhaustive treatise on " The Law of Irrigation." Res. No. 820 East Fourth South St., Salt Lake City, Utah. Ch.— Selwyn Peres, b. 15 Oct., 1890.

• ** 1 Mar 1875 - Humboldt, Allen, Kansas Joseph Bond 52 Penn came from Penn Sarah J 49 Tenn came from Ark

1880 Humboldt, Allen, Kansas Joseph Bond Self M 58 Pennsylvania, United States Sarah J Bond Wife F 54 Tennessee

1900 Humboldt, Allen, Kansas Sarah Bond 74 Dec 1825 Tenn widow 0 born 0 living Ten fa Tn mo VA Jessie Reeves 17 grand niece Jun 1882 Ark

Name: Sarah J Bond Gender: Female Residence Year: 1901 Street address: Bridge cor 4th Residence Place: Iola, Kansas, USA Spouse: Joseph Bond Publication Title: Iola, Kansas, City Directory, 1901

http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ks/county/allen/story/sketchespt6.html Humboldt Union Sketches 1918 Part 6 - USGenNet Transcribed by J. Richardson, 09-August-2000 Originally published in the Humboldt Union, Humboldt, Allen County, Kansas 11-Apr-1918. Sketches of Early History - Part 6 In the Settlement of Humboldt and Allen County By Watson Stewart The first paper printed in the place was called the Humboldt Herald. It was started by Major Joseph Bond; its first appearance being about the 16th of November, 1864. Soon after its establishment, J.H. Young, a printer from Lawrence, was taken in as a partner. Hon. J.R. Goodin was local editor. The Herald was published nearly a year. Joseph Bond represented us in the session of 1866; John R. Goodin the next year. Joseph Bond, in 1866, was an unsuccessful candidate for state superintendent of public instruction.

• ** San Francisco Call, Volume 78, Number 162, 9 November 1895 LED A DOUBLE LIFE "Major Bond" of Kansas Was "Jacob Brown" of California. CONFESSED WHILE DYING With Money Taken From His First Wife He Amassed a Big Fortune in the West. THEN HE TOOK A SECOND SPOUSE Made Mysterious Trips During Which He Supplied His Daughter With Funds. WICHITA, Kans., Nov. 8— The mystery surrounding the dual life of Jacob Brown, or Joseph Bond, as he was variously known in the States in which he lived at different periods of his life, who died recently at Humboldt, this State, is the subject of general comment in the community in which the latter part of his life was spent. For over thirty years "Major Bond 71 lived in Humboldt, Kans., where he married and engaged in many important and successful enterprises. Not until he was upon his deathbed did he disclose the fact, hitherto unsuspected by his most intimate friends, that he had been wearing a false name and covering up important chapters in his life history. The revelations which he then made seemed so incredible that for days the watchers at his bedside believed them to be only his delirious dreams.

In 1863 a tall man of military bearing came to Allen County, Kansas, giving his name as Joseph Bond, claiming to hail from Pennsylvania. In those days people didn't inquire closely into the antecedents of a stranger, provided he was on the right side of the slavery question. He settled in the town of Humboldt. Bond possessed considerable money and invested in land and in various industries that sprunc up at the close of the Civil War. In 1868 he married a woman about 36 years of age — a Miss Turner— who possessed beauty and some wealth.

Bond was successful in a financial way, making money rapidly in all his ventures. He claimed to have been a graduate of a Pennsylvania law school and a classmate of Sam Randall. He possessed a fine general education and, having a splendid knowledge of law, subsequently held many positions of trust and honor in the county. People who knew him considered him a just man, but one who would take advantage in a deal if there was any money in it for himself. He added farm after farm to his possessions until about two years ago, when called upon to fill a bond, he stated under oath that he possessed in the neighborhood of 100,000 acres of unincumbered land in the States of Kansas, Missouri, California, lowa and Nebraska. In addition to this he was interested in a great many local enterprises and was for many years the vice-president of the First National Bank of Humboldt.

During the early seventies he built a bridge across the Neosho River at Humboldt at a cost of $10,000, and for two or three years kept the tollgate himself and made an immense amount of money, the receipts often overrunning $100 a day. It was currently reported that the bridge paid for itself the first nine months after its completion. In addition Bond obtained a subsidy from farmers as an inducement to build the bridge. He sold it to the town subsequently for the original cost. Throughout his thirty years' residence at Humboldt, Bond made frequent pilgrimages away from home, telling his wife on each occasion that he was going away on business and would be gone a stated time. There was nothing remarkable in this, as his large business, which was managed entirely by himself, would warrant his absence from home much of the time.

Not long since he was taken violently ill and the attending physician told him that he had a very short time to live. Upon learning this he sent for George C. Barber, cashier of the Humboldt Bank, and another man, Paul Fisher, in whom he had great confidence. When they arrived at his house he told them that he had a married daughter living at Salt Lake City Utah, and requested them to send for her. He also stated that he thought he had another wife somewhere in the West. They thought his mind was wandering and paid no attention to his requests. However, after repeated visits and earnest solicitation on the part of the sick man, they at length concluded to humor his whim. Bond had forgotten his married daughter's name, but told them to telegraph to the Bank of California "Give name and address of Jacob Brown's daughter." In due time the reply came "Mrs. Frank Kinney. Salt Lake City."

The Bond family and friends were thunderstruck. They immediately sent a dispatch to the address and an answer was received saying that Mrs. Kinney would leave on the first train. In due course of time the lady arrived from Salt Lake City. She brought her own marriage certificate and that of her mother. Bond died just before her arrival. She stated that in 1853 her mother married Bond in New York under the name of Jacob Brown. Subsequently they moved to California. Her mother possessed considerable property at the time of her marriage with him. Bond, it appears, schemed to get this property in his possession, and after having lived with the woman seven years, until the opening of the Civil War, and having had three children born to them, all landed property was sold and all personal property converted into cash preparatory to leaving for the East. Bond left his home in Sacramento County with all the money one night and was never seen there again. Where he went no one knows, but it is now supposed that he went to China and engaged for a time in the trade that was just then developing so rapidly with the United States. He left the family without a cent. His wife managed to obtain assistance from some friends and kept her family together.

Two of the children died and the one that was left, a girl, was one day notified through a bank that money was on deposit there for her education and a school that had been selected by some unknown benefactor as the one she should attend was suggested to her. She started to school, remaining there ten years, and during all this time money to pay all her expenses kept coming from some unknown source. At the expiration of her school days she met and shortly afterward married a promising young lawyer named Kinney. They only resided in California a short time, emigrating to Salt Lake City, where they still live. Mrs. Kinney's mother lived with them until her death, which occurred about two years ago. Until the last she believed that her husband was true to her and held to the opinion that he had been murdered and robbed. Mrs. Kinney stated that her father had practiced medicine in Southern California, and a diploma found among his many sealed packages shows that he had graduated with high honors from a New York medical college. He was a member of the California Legislature previous to his mysterious disappearance. All of the statements made by Mrs. Kinney were substantiated beyond question, and then came the question of what was to become of the second wife, or Mrs. Bond. Mrs. Kinney telegraphed for her husband. Upon his arrival there was a long secret conference between them as to how the estate should be divided. This was satisfactorily adjusted. All the deeds were taken possession of by Mr. and Mrs. Kinney, while considerable bank stock, farms and personal property were transferred to Mrs. Bond. This strange and unexpected revelation set all the people who had known Bond through three decades to speculating, and it has since developed that Brown or Bond had relatives in Junction City, Kans. —a sister and her family. He was in the habit of visiting them occasionally, and this is where he went when he left with the story that he was going away on business. He went under the name of Brown in Junction City, where he had a large number of acquaintances. There he passed as a Californian, and was supposed to be interested in Eastern industries. In reality the visits he made to Junction City were stopovers on his way to and from California. It came out after his death that he had sent money from Junction City to a bank in California for a number of years to pay for the education of his daughter. His wife said to him as he was passing away, "Oh, why didn't you tell me all this before?" He replied, "Never mind; you will be well provided for. You were nothing, only a law wife." There are three years of his life that cannot in any way be accounted for. It is believed that in these years he was engaged in commercial enterprises in China.

• *** Reads Like Romance Story of a Wealthy Kansas Man and His Deserted Family. Joseph Bond's Queer Caper, Disappeared and Was Mourned As Dead for Thirty Years HIS CAREER IN THE WEST, Accumulated Wealth and Political Honors in Humboldt, THEN TOOK A SECOND WIFE Date: Thursday, November 28, 1895 Paper: Kansas City Times (Kansas City, MO) Page: 1 Special to the Kansas City Times Topeka, Kan. Nov 27 A recent issue of the Salt Lake City Tribune contained a sensational story about Joseph Bond, of Humboldt, Allen County, Kansas, which, if true, will prove a boon to the gossips of that section. The story is that Bond lived for many years under an assumed name. His real name, the story goes was Joseph Addison Brown, and he was a scion of one of the oldest and best known families in New York. In 1842 he married and settled at Rochester, N.Y., engaging in the practice of medicine. He and his wife appeared to live happily together, and three children were born to them. One day Dr. Brown went to New York City on a business trip. He did not return. Search was instituted for him, but without avail. Mrs. Brown spent everything she had trying to find her husband , and at last gave him up for dead. This was in 1863. Mrs. Brown moved to Memphis, Tenn., where two of her children died of yellow fever. The youngest, Antionette, who was a baby when Dr. Brown left home, was married to Cleeson S. Kinney, a lawyer, at the age of 18. They now live in Salt Lake City. Kinney is the author of the work known as "Irrigation Law." Mrs. Brown resided with Mr. and Mrs. Kinney at Salt Lake City until her death in 1891.

"A few years after Dr. Brown's disappearance from Rochester," says the Tribune, "a tall, dignified man of middle age appeared in Humboldt, Kansas, then the largest and most prosperous town in the state. He appeared to have plenty of money and soon demonstrated to the inhabitants of the Western town that he also had some ideas of business. During the revival of industry following the great internecine struggle, Joseph Bond, for such he called himself, was hold to the extreme in his business ventures and proportionately successful.

Everything he touched turned into money. His early successes in the Jayhawker state continued. Everything he touched seemed to turn into money. He was quick to grasp a business opportunity, and as ready to drop the lemon, when squeezed into some one of the hands outstretched for it. On different occasions he speculated, usually in wheat, on the Kansas City and Chicago exchanges. Even from the adroit manipulators of the markets he carried home substantial winnings to augment his large fortune. The citizens of Humboldt tell a hundred stories of his marvelous business instinct, by which he added farm to farm, until the aggregate made him the possessor of over 100,000 acres of the finest soil in the West.

"During the interim between his departure from Rochester and his appearance in Kansas as Major Joseph Bond--the brevet rank was conferred because of his military bearing -Brown or Bond served a term with credit in the California legislature. There is also a period of about three years in his life which is still a sealed book. Many circumstances, however, tend to the belief that during this time Brown was engaged in Chinese trade.

"In 1868 he married Miss Sarah Turney, who survives him. Miss Turney is a sister of Peter Turney, who ran for Governor of Tennessee in 1894 on the Republican ticket. Upon the death of the first Mrs. Brown, the second Mrs. Brown or Mrs. Bond, as she was known, became by the Kansas law the legal wife of the man who had for thirty years been leading a dual life. No child was ever born to them.

"Major Bond prospered financially, and his education and wealth impressed his friends and neighbors and he was oten called upon to fill important trusts. He held various elective offices, serving several terms in the Kansas legislature, and was one of the recognized leaders of the Democratic party in the Southeastern part of the state. He possessed a fine library, many of whose volumes bear evidence of the wide range of his learning.

KEPT HIS SISTER INFORMED "During the whole period of his absence from his family, extending over thrity-four years, only twice did he make himself known, and both times to a sister now living in New York. One afternoon in 1883 he called upon her, and after a short conversation disappeared as mysteriously as he had appeared. Then again, by letter to the same sister, in which he referred to an evidently unfulfilled promise to meet her at the World's Fair, did he state his existence. In his letter, which is brief and written with a lead pencil, he tells his sister of his soon-expected death from consumption. The grim humer of the man is shown in the last sentence: "Do not disturb my affairs until I am dead. I'll let you know when."

"Only the approach of death last winter--he was then 81 years old--awakened in the old man thoughts of his deserted family. He ascertained, after much inquiry, that he had a daughter residing in Salt Lake City, and in his last days he implored her to come to the bedside of her dying father. Mrs. Kinney left on the next train, but before her arrival the spirit of the willful old man had joined the great majority. Strangely enough, only a short time before she had learned of the existence on earth of her father, whom she had long mournsed as dead, and, as she believed, in proverty, Mrs. Kinney had then inserted advertisements in Kansas, Missouri, and California newspapers asking for information, but the news so long withheld came at last from the erring father.

"On the last day he was able to leave home, Major Bond had his photograph taken, to assist in his identification. All of his last thoughts were of his deserted family, and the fear that the wrong he committed thirty years ago might not be remedied embittered his dying moments.

"By a series of mutual quit-claim deeds, Mrs. Bond has been put in possession of about $60,000 in gilt-edged real estate, negotiable bonds, mortgages, stocks and cash. The remainder of the estate has gone to Mrs. Kinney.

The value of the estate which has descended to Mrs. Kinney is about $400,000. It is composed of lots in Kansas City, Mo., and the larger Kansas cities, about 80,000 acres of improved land in Southern Kansas, much of it in the corn belt, fruit and farm lands in California, 13,000 acres of timber and cotton land in Arkansas, and farms innumberale in Iowa, Nebraska, and Missouri, besides stocks, bonds, mortgages and moneys in hand. The value of the estate at present is much less than a few years ago, and probably trilling (?) to what it will be a few years hence when financial conditions favor the West."

• ** Humboldt Union 23 Jan 1947 Early Day Humboldt Romance Humboldt was not so busy with worldly things in the early days to overlook Loves Young Dream. Among the gay young bachelors of the Black Hotel was a quiet young man named Joseph Bond. He had plenty of money, but preferred lending it at the good interest rates of those days. Among the guests was a shy young maiden who owned and managed a 400 acre farm on Owl Creek.

Naturually there was more or less kidding at the hotel, and someone bet Bond $5.00 he could not drive to the farm with her. That was easy money and Bond took him up. But it did not stop there. One day there was a quiet wedding before a Justice of the Peace. The Newly Weds bought a home on West Bridge St. and lived there all their lives.

Bond was a good citizen for Humboldt. He was not afraid to take a chance with his funds. He was a promoter and investor in the Toll Bridge. With Mrs. Bond he spent much time in a little shack on the bluff shelf at the east end of the bridge and collected the tolls which finally paid for the bridge. He helped organize the Mt. Hope Cemetery Association, eventually owning it all. No one was ever turned away because they could not pay for a lot. Mrs. Bond willed it to the city at her death. He was one of the builders of the Monroe House, finally buying it. After his death, my father sold it to John Gants, another good hotel man.

But Bond's greatest help to the community was in buying tax sale certificates. This was considered a Shylock business, but I did not think so. In those days the unpaid taxes were sold at auction on a certain day in September. In three years a tax deed was issued. In two more years a warranty deed. There was keen competition for these certificates and farms were sold for $5 an acre off the north end or ten feet of a town lot. Naturally the owner wanted their property cleared. Bond would let them pay in monthly installments if they wished. At the end of the period the only lots left were mostly in gullies or in the edge of town.

But a few bright financiers over the state conceived the idea of the county buying the property and collecting the interest, eventually owning the property But instead of ousting the owners and moving in or selling, the county officers let it ride until the taxes amounted to much more than the value. The money was needed for schools, county and city expenses.

Those who paid their taxes were assessed more and more. This is one reason for the present high taxes.

But Bond gave everyone an oppportunity of paying in installments as they could and at the time of his death, in order to save heavy court costs my father as administrator deeded several pieces to me to hold until the payments were cleared.

Eventually the judge reached the age when he could not look after his interests and he employed my father to carry on. One day the judge wrote him to come down from Iola. As my father entered the room, the judge, sick in bed, said, "I want to send you on an errand." "Alright." Just then Mrs. Bond entered and the judge shut up like a clam.

Father had a business trip to take into Iowa. As he was returning he was sitting with T. S. Stover, at that time Assistant Auditor of State. On the opposite seat was a lady with a little girl, who as children will, became acquainted with the men. The mother used this as an escuse to ask Capt.Stover if he knew anyone in Humboldt. He introduced my father. She began asking questions which aroused his couriosity, so he went on to Humboldt.

He found that after the day after he left, Bond got up from bed, went to the Katy and boarded a northbound train, paying cash fare so as to leave no record. On his return the next day he went to bed called in his wife and George Barber, a banker and confessed that his real name was Brown. In the early days he had deserted his wife and small daughter in Pennsylvania, taking her money with him. What he wanted my father to do was to go to a certain town on the Katy where some one lived who knew the daughters address. The daughter was then married to a lawyer in Salt Lake City.

The lawyer husband came out. He and my father took a trip over the property, much of which consisted of timberland in Arkansas. On their return as they were walking from the depot at Iiola, the lawyer said, "Well, we will fight this thing through." Father replied "IF you do, Mrs. Bond will sue for a servants wages for the last thirty odd years, and where will you be." The lawyer thought it over for awhile and replied, "Well, I guess we won't fight." The whole affair was settled out of court to the satisfaction of everyone. A. W. CUNNINGHAM (Arthur W. Cunningham, son of William Cunningham who was co-administrator with Sarah on Joseph Bond's estate)* Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Aug 24 2020, 19:51:10 UTC