Ballantine, John G
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born May 20, 1827, in Pulaski, Tenn. He received a classical education, graduating from the university of Nashville in 1845. He studied law; graduated from Harvard law school in 1848; and was admitted to the bar. He engaged in planting; removed to Mississippi in 1855, and to Memphis, Tenn., in 1860. He served in the confederate army throughout the civil war; and was elected a representative from Tennessee to the forty-eighth and forty-ninth congresses.
BALLANTINE, WILLIAM DUNCAN, soldier, civil engineer, state legislator, was born Feb. 21, 1837, near Whitesboro, N. Y. He graduated from the Georgia military institute of Marietta, and has attained note as a successful mechanical and hydraulic engineer. During the civil war he was in the confederate service and attained the rank of lieutenant colonel.
He has been connected with various railroads as master mechanic and hydraulic engineer in Georgia and Florida. For four years he was commander of the first battalion Florida state troops; was aid-de-camp on the governor's staff; and in 1897 he was elected a member of the Florida state legislature from Fernandina.