Nov 15, 1929, Front Page
Austin M. Bond, Hartford Jeweler, Dies In Windsor
Vice President of Lux, Bond,& Lux, ill since September
Austin Miner Bond, vice president of the jewelry store of Lux, Bond & Lux, of 79 Pratt Street, died at 11 o'clock Thursday at his home on Palisades Avenue, Windsor from heart trouble which had kept him completely confined almost immediately since September. He would have been 65 years old on December 15.
Mr. Bond was born in Suffield, a son of Miner F. and Mary J. Baldwin Bond and had lived in Windsor more than 55 years.
Prior to forming the partnership with Harry C. Lux and George L. Luz almost 20 years ago, Mr. Bond was cut glass and diamond specialist for the Clayton H. Case & Co., a nationally know firm of Hartford. He began work for the Case Company which had a store on Main Street on November 1831 at the age of 17. The jewelry firms of Ernest Schall, David Mayer, D.H. Burell. Thomas Steel, Cameron & Pitkin, Deming & Gundlach, Dudley Fox and Henry Kottin , the latter a wholesaler were among the firms in the business at the time.
At the time he rendered the business, Mr. Bond said lately in an interview , the firm carried very little sterling silver the market was as good as it
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is during the present day. The sterling silver was so valuable that it was kept locked in a safe and the sterling silver stock of a large store could be carried on a small tray.
The store of Lux, Bond & Lux formerly was located on Main Street, near Asylum and moved to its present location several years ago,
Mr. Bond had served as major of the Veteran City Guard Battalion of Hartford, president of the Winpoq Sigh and Game Club of Windsor and was a member of the Windsor Business Men's Association, now the Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Bond leaves his wife, Adelaide Pelton Bond, a native of Windsor, three sons, Raymond Bond of Boston, Alfred M. Bond and Richard Bond, both of Windsor, two brothers, Albert M. Bond of Canton and Levi E. Bond of Windsor, a sister, Mrs. Hattie Bond Harris of Windsor and three grandchildren.
Nov 15, 1929, Front Page
Austin M. Bond, Hartford Jeweler, Dies In Windsor
Vice President of Lux, Bond,& Lux, ill since September
Austin Miner Bond, vice president of the jewelry store of Lux, Bond & Lux, of 79 Pratt Street, died at 11 o'clock Thursday at his home on Palisades Avenue, Windsor from heart trouble which had kept him completely confined almost immediately since September. He would have been 65 years old on December 15.
Mr. Bond was born in Suffield, a son of Miner F. and Mary J. Baldwin Bond and had lived in Windsor more than 55 years.
Prior to forming the partnership with Harry C. Lux and George L. Luz almost 20 years ago, Mr. Bond was cut glass and diamond specialist for the Clayton H. Case & Co., a nationally know firm of Hartford. He began work for the Case Company which had a store on Main Street on November 1831 at the age of 17. The jewelry firms of Ernest Schall, David Mayer, D.H. Burell. Thomas Steel, Cameron & Pitkin, Deming & Gundlach, Dudley Fox and Henry Kottin , the latter a wholesaler were among the firms in the business at the time.
At the time he rendered the business, Mr. Bond said lately in an interview , the firm carried very little sterling silver the market was as good as it
Austin Bond died In Windsor
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is during the present day. The sterling silver was so valuable that it was kept locked in a safe and the sterling silver stock of a large store could be carried on a small tray.
The store of Lux, Bond & Lux formerly was located on Main Street, near Asylum and moved to its present location several years ago,
Mr. Bond had served as major of the Veteran City Guard Battalion of Hartford, president of the Winpoq Sigh and Game Club of Windsor and was a member of the Windsor Business Men's Association, now the Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Bond leaves his wife, Adelaide Pelton Bond, a native of Windsor, three sons, Raymond Bond of Boston, Alfred M. Bond and Richard Bond, both of Windsor, two brothers, Albert M. Bond of Canton and Levi E. Bond of Windsor, a sister, Mrs. Hattie Bond Harris of Windsor and three grandchildren.
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