Her father, Dr. Enoch Brown, was an eminent physician of Springfield, for some years, and afterward moved to New York, where he died, while Pond was quite young.

[1] Nella Brown Pond was an accomplished reader and stood in the front rank of the women of America who made their mark upon the platform.

She remained with the company during that season, and her great dramatic talent secured for her widespread popularity and won recognition from prominent professionals.

[1] Mrs. Thomas Barry, then leading lady of the Boston Theater, became greatly interested in her and advised that she appear upon the lyceum platform as a reader, prophesying that she would become celebrated.

With Mrs. Barry's encouragement, an engagement was scheduled with the Redpath Lyceum Bureau, and Pond at once assumed a position and gained a popularity which successive seasons only served to intensify.