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Ballard, Tilghman E

journalist, author, was born Nov. 11, 1850, in Boone county, Ind. He received his education at the Smithson college, and the DePauw university. He is best known as a law writer, and president of the Ballard Publishing company of Crawfordsville, Ind. He is the author of Ballards' Real Estate Statutes of Indiana; Ballards' Real Estate Statutes of Kentucky; Ballards' Ohio Law of Real Property; and various other works.

BALLINGER, RICHARD ACHILLES, lawyer, jurist, author, was born July 9, 1858, in Boonesboro, Iowa. In 1884 he graduated from the Williams college, Mass.; having previously prepared for college at the state university of Kansas, and Washburn college of Topeka.

He has been eminently successful as a lawyer; acted as U.

S. commissioner in 1890-92, under appointment of District U. S. Judge Hanford of Washington; and has held the high office of judge of superior court for Jefferson county, Wash.

He is the author of Ballinger on Community Property, a law publication covering the property rights of married persons in several of the coast and southern states; and also author of Ballinger's Annotated Code and Statutes of Washington.

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