Born Falmouth (Portland), Maine, USA, 9 September 1789
Died Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 29 January 1859
Bond, William Cranch. Reproduced by permission of the Mary Lea Shane Archives of the Lick Observatory, University of California at Santa Cruz
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Turner, S. (2014). Bond, William Cranch. In: Hockey, T., et al. Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9917-7_180
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