Chester H. Pond

Chester H. Pond, 1912

Chester H. Pond (March 26, 1844 – June 11, 1912) was an American inventor. He invented many devices used in telegraphy. In later life he was a railroad developer. He also founded the town of Moorhead, Mississippi.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]

Death

Pond died at Moorhead on June 11, 1912.[3]

References

  1. ^ J.T. White 1916, p. 160.
  2. ^ Kornblith, Gary (2009). "Brief history of the Oberlin School of Commerce". EDG. Oberlin College Archives. Retrieved August 13, 2015.
  3. ^ a b J.T. White 1916, p. 161.
  4. ^ Knowledge...: A Monthly Record of Science / Electro-mechanical clock, Wyman and sons, 1886, retrieved August 13, 2015
  5. ^ Berly 1884, p. 223.
  6. ^ Rowland 1907, p. 282.
  7. ^ "Sharecropping and Prohibition". Amistad Research Center. Tulane University. 2009. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015. Retrieved August 13, 2015.
  8. ^ Richardson & Jones 2009, p. 4.
  9. ^ Parsons 1894, p. 323.
  10. ^ "Where the Southern Crosses the Dog". Mississippi Blues Commission. 2015. Retrieved August 13, 2015.
  11. ^ Pond 1912, p. 53.

Sources

  • Berly, Jules Albert (1884). J.A. Berly's Universal Electrical Directory and Advertiser. Wm. Dawson & Sons.
  • J.T. White (1916). "Pond, Chester Henry". The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. J.T. White. After 1866 Mr. Pond developed his principal inventions, among which were the union fire alarm system and the self-winding, electric clock, now in general use throughout the country.
  • Parsons, E. L. (1894), The American Missionary, Volume 48 – Almeda Gardner Girls' Industrial School, American Missionary Association
  • Pond, Chauncey (1912). "Chester Henry Pond". Oberlin Alumni Magazine. 9. Oberlin College for the Alumni Association.
  • Richardson, Joe Martin; Jones, Maxine Deloris (7 June 2009). Education for liberation: the American Missionary Association and African Americans, 1890 to the Civil Rights Movement. University of Alabama Press. ISBN 978-0-8173-1657-0.
  • Rowland, Dunbar (1907). Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form. Southern Historical Publishing Association.