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(b. Falmouth [now Portland], Maine, 9 September 1789; d. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 29 January 1959)

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His father, William Bond, a fiery Cornishman, and his strict, forceful mother, Hannah Cranch, emigrated to Massachusetts in 1786; soon after William Cranch Bond’s birth, their lumber export business failed and the family moved to Boston, where they opened a clock making shop.

Bond’s youth was spent in the hardship of poverty, and he was obliged to leave school at an early age.

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William Cranch Bond was an avid astronomer.

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William Cranch (July 17, – September 1, ) was a United States circuit judge and chief judge of the United States Circuit Court of the District of.

William Bond was born in Plymouth, and became a clockmaker and silversmith.

His rare mechanical ability proved invaluable in the shop, where he constructed a chronometer at the age of fifteen.

A total solar eclipse in 1806 fixed Bond’s attention on astronomy, and at the age of twenty-one he independently found the Comet of 1811.

The parlor of the first house he owned, in Dorchester, was converted into an observatory complete with granite pier and, in the ceiling, a meridian opening. As an expert clockmaker, he rated the chronometers for numerou