Thomas Emerson Bond, an American physician, editor, and preacher, born in Baltimore, Md., in February, 1782, died in New York, March 14, 1856. After studying in the medical school of the university of Pennsylvania, and taking his degree at the university of Maryland, he returned to Baltimore to practise medicine, and was soon called to a professorship there. While practising medicine he was likewise licensed as a local preacher in the Methodist Episcopal church. Trained to a vigorous style by faithful study of the English classics, Dr. Bond was peculiarly fitted to take active part in the theological questions that agitated the Methodist church from 1816 to 1830. In 1830 and 1831 he conducted the "Itinerant," in which he defended the polity of the Methodist Episcopal church against those views of church government that culminated in the secession of the Methodist Protestant church. His reputation is chiefly owing to his editorial management of the " Christian Advocate and Journal," the chief organ of the M. E. church. He conducted this journal for 12 years, being editor-in-chief at his death.

He published an "Appeal to the Methodists" (8vo, 1827), and "Narrative and Defence" (8vo, 1828).