Dr. Bond was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He attended local schools and received an A.B. from Harvard in 1900. For the next two years, he taught Latin at Saint Paul High School. He returned to Harvard, receiving his M.D. in 1928. His internship was spent at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Boston; he then went to McLean Hospital near Boston (1908-12) and later was Clinical Director and Pathologist at Denver State Hospital (1912-13) and instructor in Pathology at Harvard Medical School (1912–13).
Dr. Bond moved to Philadelphia as a senior assistant physician at Pennsylvania Hospital (1913–17). He served as a psychiatrist in the US Army during World War I, with state-side responsibilities. In 1919, he began his service as Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania postgraduate school and lectured at the Pennsylvania School of Social Work in Philadelphia. From 1919–22, he was Medical Director of the Department for Nervous and Mental Diseases of the Pennsylvania Hospital and thereafter Physician-in-Chief and Administrator for the Institution (1938–62).
Dr. Bond published four books, including biographies of psychiatrists Thomas S. Salmon and Thomas W. Kirkbride, as well as a number of papers on psychiatric subjects. He was a member of many medical societies, including the American Medical Association, the Philadelphia Neurological Society, the Philadelphia Psychiatric Society, the National Society for the Promotion of Occupational Therapy, and the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.
Dr. Bond served as President of the American Psychiatric Association (1929-30).