Frank Bond (February 13, 1863 – October 21, 1945) was a Canadian-born American businessman and entrepreneur, known for his economic investments and business enterprises in New Mexico.
As a young man Bond left Canada in hopes of finding work in the United States.
His brother owned a large wool processing plant in Pueblo, Frank, however, painted buildings in the area so he could earn money.
In 1883, the Bond brothers sold their wool business and moved to Northern New Mexico where they settled in a small and newly established railroad town called Española.
With their success in the business, Frank and George decided to acquire extensive tracts of land, including the portions of the Valles Caldera (Baca Location) in the Jemez Mountains.
Bond & Brother Co., it was the largest in the region and carried the absolute most updated goods, Frank was just 21 years old at the time.
[4] The store brought economic growth and prominence to Española, which at the time only had 150 inhabitants, later growing to 3,500, due to the Bond Interests.
Frank immediately began work on a two-bedroom territorial Spanish adobe home that was built atop a hill in the downtown Española area.
Bond preferred the more reserved work of building the state's economic enterprises than serving in large scale politics.
At that time, with no family member able to manage operations, business partners began selling off assets and the empire that Bond had built was all liquidated.