F. E. Bond, a member of the firm of F. E. Bond & Co., the popular dry goods house of Jackson, is a native of this State, and was born in 1857. He is the son of F. A. and Eliza (Young) Bond, natives of North Carolina and Tennessee respectively. The father came to Tennessee when about five years of age, and was prosperous in early life, but afterward met with reverses that caused financial embarrassment. He died in September, 1886, leaving a widow and six children. Our subject spent his, early life on the farm and received his education in the common schools. At the age of seventeen he came to this city, and engaged as clerk with F. H. Mayo & Co., remaining with them seven years, when Mr. Bond, in partnership with H. L. Penn, opened the business in which he has continued up to the present time. In 1881 Mr. Bond was united in marriage to Miss Etta Crawford, of this city, and daughter of Mark and Isabella Crawford. She was born in 1861, and is the mother of one child named Mark, who died in September, 1881. Mr. Bond is a true Democrat.