August Bondi

A Salina, Ks., historical marker: "August Bondi, 1833–1907, Jewish-American Abolitionist, Salina Resident"

August Bondi (Jewish name Anshl; July 21, 1833, in Vienna, Austria – September 30, 1907, in St. Louis, Missouri, United States) was an Austrian-American Jew involved in the Border War (Bleeding Kansas) and later the American Civil War. In Kansas, he was a part of the Pottawatomie Rifles and fought alongside abolitionists John Brown and James Lane.

August Bondi was born July 21, 1833, in Vienna, Austria. The Bondis, Jewish European refugees, fled the Austrian Empire after the failed revolutions of 1848 and settled in St. Louis, Missouri. August Bondi moved to the Pottawatomie Creek valley in Franklin County, Kansas in 1855 with his business partner, Jacob Benjamin and began homesteading. The Bondi and Benjamin homesteads were near the forks of Mosquito Creek northwest of Dutch Henry's Crossing (Lane, Kansas). Bondi settled in Salina, Kansas in 1866 becoming Postmaster and later a County Judge. A believer in the brotherhood of all men, he rose to be a 32nd-degree Mason. Bondi died September 30, 1907, while visiting St. Louis.

Lloyd Alexander wrote a historical novel for young people titled, Border Hawk: August Bondi, illustrated by Bernie Krigstein.