Bales, Elisha J
physician, was born in 1850 in Xenia, Ohio. He graduated from the Cincinnati Medical and Surgical college; and has attained eminence as a prominent physician of Pacific Junction, Iowa, where he is United States pension examiner, and examiner for the New York Life and the Mutual Insurance companies.
BALESTIER, CHARLES WOLCOTT, author, was born Dec. 30, 1861, in Rochester, N. Y. He was an American writer who established himself as a publisher in London, and whose sister was married to Rudyard Kipling, the novelist. He was the author of A Fair Device; Life of Blaine; A Victorious Defeat; Benefits Forgot; The Naulahka, with Rudyard Kipling, and A Common Story. He died in 1891.