Baldwin, W. H – Ballantyne, Rev. Marlin J
Baldwin, W. H
railroad manager.
In 1888-90 he was general manager of the Montana Union railway, of which he was also president for a short time. He has been assistant vice-president of the Union Pacific railway at Omaha, Neb.; was general manager of the Flint and Pere Marquette railroad during 1891-94; and since 1895 has been second vice-president of the Southern railway at Washington, D. C.
Baldwin, William S
railroad manager, was born Jan. 18, 1833, in Clarke county, Ga. Since 1852 he has been in the railway service; since 1885 has been supervisor of the Louisville and Nashville railroad; and since 1889 supervisor of the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West railway at Sanford, Fla.
Baldwin, William W
railroad president, was born Sept. 28, 1845, in Keosauqua, Iowa. He is president of the St. Louis, Keokuk and Northwestern railroad; and also of the Chicago, Burlington and Kansas City railway.
Baldwin, Winfred
clergyman, was born Feb. 11, 1851, in Blenheim, N. Y. In 1.872 he graduated from the New York Conference seminary; and six years later from the Boston University School of Theology. For eleven years he was a member of the East Maine conference of the methodist episcopal church; and since 1889 has been a member of the North Dakota conference.
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.
Balke, Julius
manufacturer, was born March 30, 1830, in Germany. In 1879 the New York billiard manufacturer, W.
IH. Collender, joined his corporation, and business has been conducted since then by The Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co.
Ball, Byron D
lawyer, state senator, was born July 19, 1844, in Rochester, N. Y. In 1871-72 he was state senator of Michigan, and was chairman of the committee of railroads. He was elected attorney-general of Michigan in 1872 and served up to 1874, when he resigned on account of ill health. He built a block of stores in Grand Rapids, and was interested with his father in other enterprises.
Ball, Charles P
soldier, railroad manager, was born Aug. 16, 1837, in Montgomery county, Ala. Since 1853 he has been in the railroad service as civil engineer and general manager. During 1857- 61 he attended the West Point academy, and served with distinction in the confederate army during the civil war. Since 1888 he has been general manager of the East and West railroad of Alabama at Cartersville, Ga.
Ball, Edward
congressman, was born in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from Ohio from 1853 to 1855, and was re-elected to the thirtyfourth congress.
Ball, Ephraim
inventor, was born Aug. 12, 1812, in Greentown, Ohio. The Ohio Mower was invented by Mr. Ball in 1854, and afterward he devised the World Mower and Reaper, and in 1858 the Buckeye Machine was brought out, all of which have sold extensively. He died Jan. 1, 1872, in Canton, Ohio.
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.
Ball, George W. I
lawyer, conveyancer. He has been connected with railroads as military agent and general passenger and ticket agent; and since 1884 has been chief conveyancer of the Pennsylvania railroad of Philadelphia, Pa.
Ball, Herman F
civil engineer, railroad manager, was born Dec. 17, 1867, in Altoona, Pa. Since 1884 he has been in the railroad service; has been chief draftsman in the car department of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railroad at Cleveland, Ohio; and since 1894 has been general car inspector of that company.
Ball, Howard J
railroad manager, was born May 23, 1852, in Philadelphia, Pa. Since 1863 he has been in the railroad service; and since 1887 has been general western passenger agent of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western railroad at Buffalo, N. Y.
Ball, John
lawyer, state legislator, philanthropist, was born Nov. 12, 1794, in Hebron, N. Y. In 1820 he graduated from Dartmouth college; taught school for a number of years; and from 1824 practiced law. In 1837 he settled in Grand Rapids, Mich.; in 1838 he was a representative in the Michigan state legislature; and was interested in schools, geology, lyceums and other local enterprises. He died Feb. 5, 1884, in Grand Rapids, Mich., and willed to that city forty acres of land, which is now known as the John Ball Park.
Ball, R. T. Mason
naval officer. In 1880 he entered the navy; in 1881 joined the Mayflower for a practice cruise with naval cadets. In 1884 he joined the monitor fleet and served two years; in 1885 joined the monitor Nantucket at New York for experimental cruise; and subsequently joined the United States naval station at New London, Conn.
Ball, Thomas
sculptor, was born June 3, 1819, in Charlestown, Mass. In early life he was a singer of basso parts in oratorios, and a portrait painter in Boston. About 1852 he devoted himself to modeling, and made a miniature bust of Jenny Lind, another of Daniel Webster, and a life-size statue of the statesman. His statue of Webster, in the Central park of New York city, is his noblest work.
Ball, Thomas H
lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 14, 1859, in Huntsville, Tex. He was educated in private schools and Austin college, in his native town; afterwards obtained practical business training upon a farm and in the mercantile business; and served three terms as mayor of Huntsville. He attended lectures at the university of Virginia and was elected president of the law class. He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat.
Ball, William Creighton
educator, journalist, was born Dec. 27, 1846, in Terre Haute, Ind. For many years he taught school in his native city; and since 1872 has been proprietor and editor of the Terre Haute Daily, Evening and Weekly Gazette. He has always taken an active part in public affairs, and is a member of the Terre Haute board of park commissioners.
Ball, William Lee
congressman, was born in 1779, in Lancaster county, Va. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1817 to 1824. He died Feb. 28, 1824, in Washington, D. C.
Ballance, Robert
railroad manager, was born Dec. 22, 1850, in Canada. Since 1866 he has been in the railway service as machinist to the Michigan Central railroad; and since 1870 general manager of the machinist department of the Burlington and Missouri River railroad at.
Denver, Colo.
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.
Ballantine, William Gay
educator, college president, was born Dec. 7, 1848, in Washington, D. C. In 1875 he was appointed professor of Greek in the university of Indiana; and in 1891 was elected president of Oberlin coliege
Ballantyne, Rev. Marlin J
educator, clergyman, poet, was born Aug. 30, 1852, near Brookville, Pa. He received his education in the public schools and at Dayton Union academy. For seven years he taught school, and for nearly twenty years has been engaged in the ministry. He is now presiding elder of the Oregon Conference of the United Evangelical Church, president of the La Fayette seminary, and teacher of political economy and ethics in the same institution. He has contributed extensively both prose and verse to the religious press.