He was a member of the Wisconsin State Senate, representing Adams, Columbia, and Marquette counties for three years.

Born in Addison, New York, Pond went to the public schools in his early years and worked as a paid farmhand and teacher to fund his further education.

In Wisconsin, he worked on the family farm in the summers and taught school in the winters until the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861.

[2] Pond was one of the first in Wisconsin to volunteer for service in the Union Army after word of the attack on Fort Sumter.

[1][5] He resigned his Senate seat in March 1890 after he was appointed U.S. pension agent at Milwaukee, by President Benjamin Harrison.