Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Pond, Frederick Eugene

POND, Frederick Eusrene, author, b. in Pack- waukee, Marquette co., Wis., 8 April, 1856. He- received a common-school education, and early turned his attention to sporting matters. He was among the first to urge the organization of a Na- tional sportsman's association, and in 1874 was the prime mover in forming the Wisconsin sportsman's association for the protection of fish and game From 1881 till 1886 he was field-editor of the New York " Turf, Field, and Farm," with the exception of six months in 1883, when he was associate editor of the "American Field," of Chicago, Ill., and be- came later editor of " Wildwood's Magazine " in the latter city. On 31 Jan., 1882, he nearly lost his life in the fire that destroyed the " World " build- ing in New York city. Under the pen-name of " Will Wildwood " he has published "Handbook for Young Sportsmen" (Milwaukee 1876): Mr- raoirs of Eminent Sportsmen " (New York, 1878); and " The Gun Trial and Field Trial Records of America" (1885). He has edited Frank Forester's " Fugitive Sporting Sketches " (Milwaukee, 1879); the same author's " Sporting Scenes and Charac- ters" (Philadelphia, 1880); and Isaac McLellan's "Poems of the Rod and Gun" (New York, 1886). He has also written an introduction to " Frank Forester's Poems," edited by Morgan Herbert ( 1 N* T i.