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Ballard, Bland
pioneer, legislator, was born Oct. 16, 1761, in Fredericksburg, Va. As a major of Kentucky volunteers he led an expedition against the British and Indians at the river Raisin, in Michigan, in 1814, where he was wounded and taken prisoner. He was for several terms a member of the Kentucky legislature.
Ballard county, Ky., and Blandville, its capital, commemorate his services during the early history of the state. He died Sept. 5, 1853, in Shelby county, Ky.
Ballard, Bland W
soldier, pioneer, legislator, was born Oct. 16, 1761, in Fredericksburg, Va. He was a noted pioneer; served in the war of 1812; and repeatedly represented Shelby county in the Kentucky legislature. He died Sept. 5, 1853.
Ballard, Harlan Hoge
educator, author, was born May 26, 1853, in Athens, Ohio. He is the founder and president of The Agassiz association, which was established in 1875 at Pittsfield, Mass. He is the author of Three Kingdoms; One Thousand Blunders of English Corrected; World of Matter; and with the Hon. S.
Proctor Thayer was joint author of Barnes' Readers, and the American Plantbook.
Ballard, Henry E
naval officer, was born in 1785, in Maryland. He was a lieutenant on board the U. S. frigate Constitution in her famous action with the British cruisers Cyane and Levant in the bay of Biscay in 1815. He died May 23, 1855, in Annapolis.
Ballard, Minnie C
journalist, poet, was born in 1852, in Troy, Pa. Since 1873 she has been a constant contributor of poetry and prose to current literature.
Ballou, Aaron Bryon
physician, scientist, was born July 29, 1831, in Eagle Harbor, N. Y. He is a distinguished scientist and owns one of the best individual geological and mineralogical collections in the state of Indiana.
Ballou, Mrs. Addie Lucia
artist, poet, was born April 29, 1837, in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. She is a successful artist, journalist, and speaker of San Francisco, Cal., in which city she is president of the Nationalist club.
Ballou, Adin
clergyman, author, was born in 1803 in Rhode Island. He was a universalist clergyman of Milford, Mass., and the author of Christian Non- Resistance Defended; Treatise on Spirit Manifestations; Primitive Christianity and its Corruptions; and History of the Town of Milford. He died in 1890.
Ballou, Aurelia A
writer, poet, was born in Hannibal, Mo. She is the author of over one thousand letters written to prominent newspapers, the first being written in 1859, and dated Florence, Italy. She has also contributed many meritorious poems to current literature, and her productions appear in Poets of America and other standard works.
Ballou, Daniel W
soldier, journalist, was born Feb. 26, 1837, in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. He served as a union soldier in company K, tenth regiment Illinois infantry. He participated in fifteen engagements, and his dash and bravery became proverbial in the army. He carried an unextricable rebel bullet in his lungs for twenty-three years, and finally died from its effects March 9, 1885, in Oakland, Cal.
Ballou, Henry Latimer
financier, legislator, was born Oct. 14, 1841, in Cambridge, Mass. He is a successful financier and treasurer of various banks and societies. He was elected to the Rhode Island state senate in 1888.
Ballou, Hosea
clergyman, author, was born April 30, 1771, in Richmond, N.
H. He is justly regarded as the most distinguished Ballou in America, and two separate volumes have been published to commemorate his celebrity. He was the author of a treatise on Atonement; Notes on the Parables, and other religious works. He was the founder of universalism, and established the first newspaper devoted to this doctrine. After sixty years of public service, he died June 7, 1852, in Boston, Mass.