Ballard, Andrew Jackson – Ballou, Hosea
Ballard, Andrew Jackson
lawyer, journalist, legislator, was born about 1817. In 1842-43 he represented the city of Louisville in the legislature. In 1871 he became the principal political editor of the Louisville Daily and Weekly Commercial.
Ballard, Asa N
soldier, physician, surgeon, was born Oct. 17, 1842, in Wilmington, Ohio. During the civil war he served with distinction in the forty-eighth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, and was lieutenant. For many years he was superintendent of public schools in Illinois and Indiana, and principal of the Ward school of Indianapolis. He is now a successful physician of Birmingham, Ala.; has been president of the Alabama Homœopathic association; ana president of the board of pensions of examining surgeons of Birmingham, Ala.
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, Ezra H
educator, physician, was born Nov. 18, 1843, in Helena, N. Y. He received his education at the public schools; Fort Covington academy; State Normal school of Albany, N. Y.; and in 1868 graduated from the medical department of the university of Michigan. During 1871-73 he served as superintendent of schools in Emmet county, Iowa; and again during 1885-89. serving nearly eight years. During 1874-79 he was county treasurer; and since 1879 has given his whole attention to the practice of medicine at Westerville. In 1888 The was elected a member of the educational council, and has always taken an active part in educational matters.
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
lawyer, lecturer, orator, politician, was born April 20, 1839, in Tinmouth, Vt. In 1861 he graduated from the university of Vermont; and from the Albany Law school in 1863. He served one year in the civil war in the fifth Vermont volunteer infantry. He has been city attorney of Burlington, Vt.; and states attorney of his county. In 1888-89 he was a member of the Vermont house of representatives, and a member of the state senate in 1878-79. He was the delegate from Vermont to the republican national convention in 1884; and assistant secretary of the national republican convention in 1888. He has filled many positions of honor; was one of the charter members of the Vermont Commandery of the Loyal Legion, and judge advocate of G. A. R. for Vermont.
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.
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.
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 R
lawyer, legislator, was born Aug. 6, 1837, in Smithfield, R. I. He received his education in the schools of Rhode Island and the Brown university.
During the civil war he served as a union soldier in the twelfth regiment of the Rhode Island volunteer infantry and was promoted lieutenant; also was colonel in the Rhode Island militia. He has served as a member of the Rhode Island general assembly from Smithfield and Providence. He has been a member of the city council of Providence, and president of the board of aldermen. He has attained prominence as an able lawyer, and is the senior member of the law firm of Ballou and Tower of Providence, R. I.
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, Eli
D. D., clergyman, journalist, was born Dec. 1, 1808, in Leroy, N. Y. From 1840 to 1870 he was the owner and editor of the universalist periodical, entitled The Christian Repository. He died March 12, 1883.
Ballou, Frederick Milton
manufacturer, legislator, was born June 21, 1818, in Cumberland, R. I. He was a successful woolen manufacturer and represented the city of Baltimore in the state legislature in 1870 and 1883, and for three years was a member of the city council.
He died in 1889.
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.
Ballou, Hosea
clergyman, author, was born Oct. 18, 1796, in Halifax, Vt. He was a universalist clergyman and the first president of Tufts college in 1854-61. He was the author of Ancient History of Universalism. He died May 27, 1861, in Somerville, Mass.
Ballou, Hosea
farmer, merchant, genealogist, was born July 12, 1827, in Fenner, N. Y. He is a successful business man, and aided greatly in collecting historical data for the genealogy of the Ballou family.