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Ball, George Harvey

clergyman, college president, author, was born Dec. 7, 1819, in Canada. After graduating from the divinity school of Lewiston, Maine, he taught school in Ohio. For thirty years he was pastor of the baptist church in Buffalo, N. Y.; for seven years was editor of the Baptist Union of New York city; and in 1892 became president of the Keuka college, New York. He has always taken a deep interest in governmental affairs, and was a member of the first republican convention at Philadelphia, which nominated John C. Fremont for the presidency. He is the author of several books, and has contributed extensively to periodical literature.