ANNIE LAURIE BOND, M.D.
A woman of rare and admirable qualities, Dr. Bond is widely known and highly appreciated for her work as a physician and surgeon, which has brought her into prominence in Lindsay, Tulare county, and its vicinity. She was born near Woodbine, Harrison county, Iowa, the daughter of Charles Krepps. He was a native of Ohio and an early settler of Iowa, where he improved and cultivated a farm. He remained in that location until 1873, when he brought his family to California and located them at Lemoore, Kings county, in the Mussel Slough country, about six miles south of Grangeville. There he improved a farm upon which he lived until his retirement from the active cares of life, when he located in Lemoore. His death occurred in 1902, in Lemoore, at the age of seventy-eight years. He was a man of strong, earnest character and deeply imbued with the principles of right. From 1862 until the close of the war, he served as a volunteer in an Iowa regiment, taking part in the Atlanta campaign as well as many engagements where courage and endurance were the requisites of the soldiers who brought victory to the Union. He was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and in religion was identified with the United Brethren Church. His wife, formerly Melinda Scovel, was a native of New York state and the daughter of Loomis Scovel, who came from the Empire state to Illinois, thence to Iowa, where he was a pioneer farmer. Mr. Scovel still makes his home in that state, at the venerable age of eighty-five years. Mrs. Krepps survives here husband and makes her home with Dr. Bond. Mr. Krepps was married twice, having four daughters and two sons by his first wife, of whom one son and one daughter are deceased. By his second marriage he had four daughters and two sons, all of whom are living.
The eldest of this family of children, Annie Laurie Bond, came to California with her parents in 1873, where she received her education in the public schools of the state. In womanhood she took up the study of medicine, entering the California Medical College of San Francisco, from which institution she was graduated in 1897 with the degree of M. D. Immediately following her graduation she began a practice in Stockton, which continued but six months, when she was taken ill. In December, 1898, she located in Lindsay and has since continued the practice of medicine and surgery here. She has made a success of her work and has won the confidence of those with whom she has had professional intercourse as well as those who have witnessed her success.
In Visalia, in 1886, she married Seth H. Bond, a native of Iowa. He is an educator, having taught for many years in Oregon and California. They are the parents of one child, Ruth. Dr. Bond is a member of the Fraternal Aid and Women of Woodcraft, and is examining physician for both. In religion she is a Seventh Day Adventist.