Chauncey Northrop Pond (1841-1920) was a Congregational minister (ordained in 1866) devoted to missionary efforts in China prior to, and around the time of, the Boxer Rebellion.
The Oberlin College missionaries who served in Shanxi Province were Pond's primary interest.
Ponds' daughter, Jennie Pond Atwater (1865-96), served for four years as a missionary at the Fenzhou station of the American Board and died there.
Ernest R. Atwater (1865-1900), her four children, Ernestine (born 1889), Mary (b.
1896), and Ernest's second wife, Elizabeth Graham Atwater were all killed.