Charles Henry Bond

Cigars In 1863, at the age of seventeen, Bond entered the cigar business. The business grew rapidly, and it was relocated to a large factory in Boston. Waitt & Bond eventually became the largest cigar manufacturer in New England and one of the largest in the United States.

Bond also owned a number of properties in Washington, D.C., including the Bond Building. His donations to the Saugus camp of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War were credited for its success, and the camp was named in Bond's honor. At the time of his death, it was believed that Bond's real estate ventures threatened his fortune. One month before his death, all of Bond's properties were placed in the hands of trustees. The Washington Post reported that Bond's dissatisfaction with the trustees' actions may have caused him to take his life. In 1933, his daughter Edith Louise founded The Peterborough Players, a professional theatre arts company in Peterborough, NH.