African American Businessmen- Ulysses Scott Bond

Ulysses Scott (U.S.) Bond was born in Madison, Arkansas, in 1897, the tenth of eleven sons of Scott Winfield Bond and Magnolia Bond. U.S. Bond worked with his father, who was a landowner and businessman in St. Francis County, before attending Atlanta Baptist (later Morehouse) College. After attending Oberlin Business College in Ohio, Bond joined the family business back in Arkansas as treasurer and manager of its gravel operation. After the death of their father and the dissolution of the family business, U.S. and his older brother Theo went into business as funeral directors, chemical manufacturers (called Bondol Laboratories, today part of Arlington Chemical Company), and motel owners. In 1953, he was named one of the top ten African Americans in Arkansas. He died and was buried in the family plot in Madison in 1967. I’m John Kirk of the UALR History Department and this has been an Arkansas moment.