City: Brownsville
BOND, Robert Nelson, business man and manufacturer; born Brownsville, Tenn., July 8, 1873; son of James and Helen (Nelson) BOND; father’s occupation cotton merchant; paternal grandfather James Bond, Sr., paternal grandmother was a Miss OWEN before her marriage, maternal grandfather Robert NELSON, maternal grandmother Mary (Anderson) NELSON; educated Brownsville, Tenn., and Bingham School, N. C.; began business career as a druggist; married Annie E. EVERETT June 8, 1893; member of the K. P., president of the Commercial Club of Brownsville; was Captain Co. E., Bingham School N. C.; member of Baptist church; purchased drug business in 1893, operated successfully and sold out in 1908; in 1902 organized Brownsville Cotton Oil Co. and was elected secretary and treasurer of the same; 1904 organized and was elected secretary and treasurer of Haywood County Compress Co.; 1906 organized Brownsville Cotton Oil and Ice company and was elected president of the same which position he now holds.
