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(II) Edward, eldest son of Alling Ball, born about 1642, married Abigail Blatchly about 1664, and moved with the church of which he was a member about 1667, to New Jersey, locating on the present site of the city of Newark. He was assigned a lot of about six acres in the heart of the present city, and a portion of this is now occupied by his descendant, Miss Rachel Burnet. Edward and Abigail Ball had four sons and two daughters-Caleb, Abigail, Joseph, Lydia, Moses and Thomas.
(III) Thomas, son of Edward Ball, was born in 1687 in Newark, and about 1710 married Sarah Davis. He died December 18, 1744, and his widow survived until February 1, 1778, reaching the age of eighty-eight years. They were the parents of twelve children.
(IV) Nathaniel, eldest child of Thomas and Sarah Ball, was born about 1711, and married Esther Osburn. He resided at Connecti- cut Farms, New Jersey, where he died in 1781, aged seventy years.
(V) Nehemiah, son of Nathaniel and Esther Ball, was born in 1756, and married Esther Salle at Connecticut Farms. He was first sergeant of an artillery company in the Revolutionary army, whose muster roll is still preserved by his descendants in Watertown, New York. In 1796 he moved with his family to Frankfort, Herkimer county, this state, and died in June, 1847, at Pultney, Steuben county, New York. His wife died in 1816 in Rutland, New York. She was the mother of nine children. The sixth of these, Sinecy, receives appropriate mention in this article.
(VI) Elihu, second child and eldest son of Nehemiah and Esther (Sallee) Bali, was born July 25, 1784, in Elizabeth, New Jersey, and was twelve years old when the family went to Frankfort, New York.
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The father had purchased this land without having seen it, and when he located upon it there was work for all in clearing up the land and making a home. Having grown to man's estate, in the fall of 1805 he visited Jefferson county and bought land in the town of Rutland, in Septem- ber. On the sixth of March, 1806, he left Herkimer county and arrived at his Rutland purchase four days later. He describes Watertown as being a hamlet of a dozen small houses then. He cleared twenty-five acres and built a log house and barn ; he then sold his farm and bought another adjoining of eighty acres which he cleared and improved. He settled on the second place in the spring of 1810. It is apparent that he must have been industrious, as he had accomplished much in the wilderness in the first four years.
In December, 1812, he volunteered in a cavalry company, and served three months about Sacketts Harbor and Cape Vincent, with the rank of sergeant. In June, 1814, he went with his team to Buffalo, helping to convey a regiment for the defense of that point against possible British invasion. Returning to Sacketts Harbor in September of the same year, he kept a boarding house at that place until peace was pro- claimed in March, 1815. He then returned to his farm in Rutland, on which he built a frame barn in 1817, and a house in 1822. Four of his children were born in the log house, which was replaced by a frame building in 1822. Having retired from active farming in favor of his son, in 1856, he moved with the latter to Watertown, where he continued to reside until his death on February 19, 1871.
He was married November 22, 1804, to Anna, daughter of Will- iam Pelton. She was born August 25, 1785, in Saybrook, Connecticut, and was in her tenth year when Mr. Pelton brought his family to Frankfort, this state. He came in the early spring with four yokes of oxen and two sleighs, the journey consuming three weeks. Mrs. Ball died February 10, 1857, at the home of her son in Watertown. Following is a record of her children; Maria, born January 1, 1806, died September 10, 1889, while visiting friends at Clayton; she was then the widow of John P. Wilson, of Watertown. Samantha, born October 9, 1807, became the wife of Pliny Monroe, and died May 5, 1887, in Watertown, being then a widow. Juliette, born March 27, 1809, married Samuel Payne, and died at Tylerville, June 17, 1881. William P., born November 24, 1810, was a farmer in Rutland, where he died April 10, 1902. Henry Morris, the subject of the following paragraphs. Lucippa Ann, born June 2, 1824, died December 9, 1885 ;
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she was the wife of Charles Pickett, of Tylerville, and both died in Watertown, where Mr. Pickett was in business for a number of years.
(VII) Maria, eldest child of Elihu and Anna ( Pelton) Ball, was born January 1, 1806, at Frankfort, New York. In March of the same year, her parents moved to Rutland, where she resided until her marriage, January 17, 1827, to John P. Wilson. Mr. Wilson was a farmer in the Town of Watertown, and died there. His wife died September 10, 1889, while visiting friends at Clayton. They were the parents of five children, the eldest of whom receives extended notice below. Mary, the second, married Albert Hall. George Almon resides at Burr's Mills. Melissa, wife of Byron Monroe, died. Jennie married Byron Champlin, and resides at Bowling Green, Ohio.
(VIII) Anna Elizabeth, eldest child of John P. and Maria (Ball) Wilson, was born July 10, 1830, in the town of Watertown, and remained at home with her parents until February 7, 1850, when she was married to Phineas Collins. He was born June 17, 1820, in the town of Martins- burg, Lewis county, this state, and in manhood engaged in farming in the town of Watertown until April, 1871, when he located in the city of Watertown. He died August 27, 1892, and his wife passed away July 13, 1877. Mr. Collins was an old-time Democrat, and made no change in his allegiance. Brief mention of his children follows :
(IX) Clark Wilson Collins was born April 15, 1851, in the town of Watertown, and married Frances Ann Thurston, daughter of Pierson K. Thurston, of Burr's Mills.
(IX) Flora Melissa Collins, born July 19, 1860, in the town of Watertown, was married June 17, 1880, to Frank Amos Baker. He was born July 4, 1851, in Gouverneur, St. Lawrence county, this state. He is an earnest Republican, and a member of Watertown Lodge, No. 49, of the Masonic order. He is a machinist, and resides in the city of Watertown. His eldest child, Cora Ann, born August 6, 1881, died March 24, 1883. Roy Eugene born May 24, 1885, is employed by his uncle, George C. Baker, a merchant of Watertown. Arthur Frank, born August 24, 1887, died January 11, 1897. Gladys Mildred May, born March II, 1893, is a student of the city schools.
(X) Frank Collins Baker, second child and eldest son of Frank Amos and Flora M. (Collins) Baker, was born March 13, 1883, in the city of Watertown, in whose public schools he received his education. He acquired the trade of machinist, by close study and much hard labor 5
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becoming a skilled artisan. He is a member of the First Baptist Church, and is respected as an upright Christian man.
(VII) Henry Morris Ball, son of Elihu, was born June 27. 1820, being the last of the children born in the log house. He was educated in the common schools of that period and obtained what would be con- sidered in these days a rather limited education. In the fall of 1839. being then nineteen years of age, he went to Depauville and lived in the family of Stephen Johnson for two years. Mr. Johnson was postmaster and owned grist and saw mills. Young Ball made himself useful dur- ing these two years, at a salary of seventy-five dollars per year and board, and felt that he was getting the best of the bargain, perhaps. He saved one-half of his two years' salary, and in the fall of 1841 came to the then village of Watertown, where, in company with Walter N. Woodruff, he bought out a grocery store. This business did not prove satisfactory. and a year later he returned to his native place to assist his father, who was then some fifty years of age. Being possessed of the Yankee aptitude for business, he soon began to enlarge the field of his endeavors, and beginning about 1845 dealt in stock more or less. In the fall of 1856 he moved to Watertown and bought the property on Paddock street, which ever after continued to be his home. In this he made valuable improve- ments, including a barn costing $3.500, and it is one of the most desir- able places in the city. He then engaged in the purchase of farm produce. dealing quite extensively in butter and cheese, and occupied a store in the city some forty years. retiring in 1898. Beside owning considerable valuable real estate in the city, he had a farm of nearly four hundred acres in the town of Rutland, with fifty head of cattle, all of which he looked after and managed personally. His life was a very active one. and he was remarkably well preserved at the time of his death, March 19, 1904. Ilis demise was caused by heart failure, in the midst of apparently perfect health. By his industry and shrewdness, he accumulated a hand- some competence. In young manhood he adhered to the Democratic party, but its attitude on the slavery issue alienated him and he had been a steadfast Republican ever since the adoption of the "Missouri Com- promise." Never an office-seeker, he always took an intelligent interest in the progress of his county, the state and the nation. During the Civil war he was prevented by the demands of a growing family from volun- teering as a soldier, but sent a soldier in his place, though he was not drafted and was not compelled to do so. He was a leading member of
A. M. Ball
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the Universalist church, and one of the most prominent and progressive citizens of Watertown.
Mr. Ball was married March 9, 1843, to Mehitable Burnham, who was born in May. 1822, at Burr's Mills, daughter of Nathaniel Burn- hanı, of that place. (See Burnham, VI.) Mrs. Ball died April 22, 1871. leaving three children. The first of these, Helen Medora, born April 25, 1845, is the widow of John J. Lamon, of Watertown. Alice B., born No- vember 2, 1846, is the widow of William W. Scott, and resides in New York city. Wooster O., of whom further mention appears later. Mr. Ball married for his second wife, September 17, 1873, Eunice E. Drullard, who was born May 27, 1841, in Albany, New York, daughter of Solomon and Eunice (Ingalls) Drullard, of French and English descent respect- ively. The children of this marriage are: William Drullard, men- tioned hereinafter. Fred Henry, born November 10, 1876, died at the age of three years. Arthur Rea, mentioned hereinafter. Margaret Lorain, born March 29, 1888, at home.
(VIII) Wooster Orlin Ball was born September 26, 1853, in Rutland, this county, and was reared in the city of Watertown. He was a student of the Watertown high school, and spent two years at Dartmouth College. In the meantime he had given some attention to business in the office of his father, and he left school in order to engage in business as a partner of the latter in the produce trade. Before he was thirty years of age he became interested in the idea of making paper from the immense lumber resources of the Black River valley, and in 1887 he built a pulp mill at Black River which he operated ten years. In January, 1897, he organized the Tissue Paper Company of Carthage, in which he was appointed secretary and treasurer, and still continues in that capacity. He had previously been interested in the Black River Wood Pulp Company, which leased and operated what was known as the Spicer plant at Carthage, now out of existence. In 1900, to supply the de- mands of the Tissue Paper Company, a pulp mill was constructed at South Edwards, the product of which is consumed at Carthage. In all of these enterprises Mr. Ball has been a moving spirit, and their success is largely due to his industry and sound business faculty. He attends the Presbyterian church, with his family, and is an ardent be- liever in the principles of Republicanism.
Mr. Ball was married June 23, 1881, to Miss Kate L. Baker, who was born June 21, 1859, at Oswego, New York, daughter of George and Cynthia (Mattison) Baker, natives, respectively, of Watertown
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and Scriba, New York. Mrs. Ball's grandfather, Thomas Baker, was an early resident of Watertown, where he served long as a magistrate. Mr. and Mrs. Ball are the parents of three children, born as follows: Marguerite Mattison, November 2, 1886; Gladys Morgan, July 12, 1888; and William Burnham, January 18, 1891.
William Drullard Ball was born April 21, 1875, in Watertown, this county. He attended the Watertown public schools, the Clinton Liberal Institute, at Fort Plain, New York, St. Lawrence University, and Union College. At the age of nineteen years he left college to engage in the pulp business with his brother, at Carthage, and upon the organization of the Tissue Paper Company he was made vice- president. He is a diligent and successful business man, and a popular citizen of Carthage, where he has resided since 1894. He is a director of the Champion Paper Company of that town, which he assisted in estab- lishing in 1901, and is president of the village board of water commis- sioners. He is a staunch Republican, and active in the local councils of his party. He is a firm believer in the faith of the Universalist church.
He was married July 19, 1898. to Miss Eva Weber, daughter of John and Carrie Weber, of German extraction. Mrs. Ball is a native of Carthage, and a member of Grace Episcopal church.
Arthur Rea Ball was born November 6, 1877, at Watertown, New York. He was educated in the schools of that city, and the Clinton Liberal Institute. At eighteen years of age he engaged in the wholesale produce business with his father at Watertown, and came to Carthage in the spring of 1897 to join his brothers in the paper manufacture. After two years' service as clerk and handy man he became superin- tendent of the plant, which position he now holds, and is at present man- ager of the Champion Paper Company, which he assisted in organizing, and whose plant he built. He is a steadfast Republican in political prin- ciples.
He was married June 14, 1899, to Anna Irving Hollis, who was horn in Canton. New York, December 11, 1878, daughter of Charles J. and Martha .1. ( Harris) Hollis. His wife, Martha A. ( Harris) Hollis, was a daughter of the inventor of the Harris scale. Mrs. Ball is a mem- ber of the Presbyterian church, of Carthage, where the family resides. Mr. Ball attends the Universalist church.
(VI) Sinecy, sixth of the nine children of Nehemiah and Esther Sallee ) Ball, was born March 3, 1791, in Elizabeth, New Jersey, and was taken by his parents to Frankfort, Herkimer county, this state, when
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five years of age. There he grew to manhood and received such educa- tion as was afforded by the pioneer schools. Before attaining his ma- jority, he came to this county and spent a few years in Rutland, where he was married. He was a soldier in the War of 1812, for which he was granted a pension a few years before his death. In the year 1817 he located in the town of Theresa, being one of the first permanent residents of that town. He settled on the military road two miles west of the falls, cleared up the land, and became one of the prosperous farmers and influ- ential citizens of his town. He was an officer at Sackets Harbor in 1812-14, and subsequently a colonel of militia. He was often in com- mand at the trainings at Antwerp, near Cook's tavern. He sold his orig- inal farm in 1836 and bought another in the same town, and passed his last years on his third farm near Hyde Lake, in the town of Theresa. where he died July 1. 1877, in his eighty-seventh year.
He married Charlotte Towne, March 25. 1813. She was born Sep- tember 4, 1792, in New Hampshire, a daughter of Francis and Relief Towne, early residents of Rutland. Colonel Ball's family incuded seven sons and one daughter, who grew to maturity, and two are now living. The first three died in infancy. Warren, born May 13, 1818, died at Centralia, Illinois. Edward, May 20, 1830, died in Watertown, as related below. Egbert, March 27, 1822 died near Hyde Lake. Willis, April 21, 1824, died at Plessis. Charles, May 3, 1826, died in Theresa. Chauncey April 15, 1831, lived on his father's homestead, where he died. Wilson F., June 30, 1834. is now a Methodist clergyman, located at Tupper Lake. The daughter, Emeline, born July, 14, 1828, married David G. Collins, and is now the widow of Henry Cough, residing at Cape Vin- cent. She was educated in the public schools of the town and village of Theresa, and taught three terms of school in her native town while a young lady. She was never blessed with children. She is a member of the Presbyterian church at Cape Vincent, and has been a teacher in the Sunday school. Having been a widow ten years at one time, and again during the last nineteen years, she now lives entirely alone, and affords a good example of the virility and longevity of those bearing the Ball blood.
Colonel Ball attended and supported the Universalist church and was a Whig and Republican. A quiet man, he attended to his own con- cerns and was a strictly temperate, upright and exemplary citizen.
(VII) Edward, second son and child and Colonel Sinecy and Char- lotte (Towne) Ball. was born May 30. 1820. in the town of Theresa, and
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received his education in the common schools of his native town and the "Middle Road school," in the town of Rutland, whither he went at the age of thirteen years to live with his uncle, Luther Towne. His first independent undertaking was in the cultivation of rented lands, succes- sively in the towns of Theresa, Rutland and Watertown. In 1877 he purchased the farm in the last named town, on which now reside his sons, Henry C. and John B. Ball. He was a successful farmer and owned and operated a cheese factory, continuing these industries until his death, which took place October 1. 1883. While not a member of any religious organization, he was a moral man and respected as an indus- trious and upright citizen. He was a sincere Republican in political principle, and the confidence of his fellows is shown in the fact that he served several years as collector of the town of Watertown.
Ile was married January 6, 1843, to Eliza Howell, born in the town of Champion. December 5. 1823, and died December 29. 1902. She was the daughter of William and Mary ( Raymond) Howell. The children of Edward and Eliza ( Howell) Ball, eight in number, settled near their parents, and all now living reside within their native town. Jane Eliza, born September 3, 1844. in the town of Rutland, is a highly intelligent lady, and is regarded as a mother by the younger members of the family. Hler home is in Watertown, with her widowed sister as companion. Byron Edward receives further mention in a following paragraph. Her- bort William, born December 9, 1849, died when thirty-five years old, unmarried. Anna Jennette, born September 4, 1853, in the town of Watertown, died in her tenth year. Lucy Ann. November 25, 1855, was married March 20, 1879, to George B. Simmons, who died April 7, 1891, leaving two children namely : Edith M., born August 1, 1883, and Ed- ward D., November 13. 1888, died August 22, 1893. Charles Gardner Ball, born March 17, 1859, in Rutland, died in the beginning of his six- teenth year. Henry C. is the subject of a later paragraph, as is also John B., the youngest.
(VHI1) Byron Edward, second child and eldest son of Edward und Eliza ( Howell ) Ball, was born June 14, 1847, in the town of Rut- land, and received a practical education in the common schools. In early manhood he followed teaching and farming, and purchased his present farm in 1883. It is located in the southeastern part of the town of Water- toen, comprising valley and upland, especially adapted to dairying and stock-growing. Like all the family he believes in and supports the prin- ciples of the Republican party. He was married November 23. 1869, to
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Lovica Wadley, daughter of James Wadley. She was born October 19, 1846, and died June II, 1903, leaving a son, Arthur Boynton Ball. Mr. Ball is of retiring disposition, respected and esteemed by his neighbors.
(IX) Arthur Boynton, only child of Byron E. and Lovica Ball, was born November 19, 1873, in the town of Watertown, was educated in the public schools and resides on the farm with his father. He was married October 13, 1897. to Nora Anna Fralick, who was born October 10, 1877, in the town of Worth, daughter of Adam and Adelaide ( Wash- burn) Fralick. The tenth generation is represented by the son of Arthur B. Ball, namely, Keith Adam Byron, born June 23, 1904.
(VIII) Henry C., seventh child of Edward and Eliza (Howell) Ball, was born June 26, 1861, in Rutland, and was reared in the town of Watertown, attending the public schools. From his father he learned the details of cheese-making, and has continued that industry to the pres- ent time, in conjunction with farming. He is a member of the Water- town Produce Exchange, and is regarded as a successful and exemplary business man of his town. He adheres to the political precepts of his father and grandfather, believing in the financial and protective systems in vogue.
Mr. Ball was married October 27, 1885, to Miss Mertilla C. Horn, a daughter of Thomas and Angeline Horn. She was born March 8, 1865, on Wolf Island, in the St. Lawrence river, under Canadian dominion. Mr. Ball's family includes two children, born in the town of Watertown, as follows : Ada Horn, April 7, 1890, and Beulah A., November 27, 1898.
(VIII) John B., youngest child of Edward and Eliza (Howell) Ball, was born April 23, 1866, in Watertown, and resides with his elder brother on the farm which their father purchased in 1877, on which he was born. He gives assiduous attention to business, in the operation of the cheese factory and farm, in company with his brother, and does not seek political station, though sound and stable in political principle. The brotliers are respected citizens of the town, as were their father and grand- father.
(I) Among the six sons of William Ball, of Wiltshire, England, who came to American before 1640, as above noted, was John Ball, who settled near Boston.
(II) Nathaniel. son of John Ball, with his wife Mary resided in Concord, Massachusetts, and had the following children: John, died
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1649; Nathaniel, born and died 1649; Ebenezer, Eleazur and John, the latter born 1660.
(III) Eleazur, fourth son of Nathaniel and Mary Ball. was born somewhere about 1053 to 1658.
(IV) Deacon Eleazur, son of Eleazur Ball, was born in 1698, in Concord, Massachusetts, and was one of the first settlers in Rutland, in Worcester county, same colony, in 1719. For a time he lived in South- bridge, same county, and removed to Spencer, a neighboring town in Worcester county, in 1752. The record of his children is as follows : Jonas, Joseph, Peter, a daughter (unnamed), Abigail, Silas, Jonathan. the last two being twins.
(V) Jonathan Ball, last above named, was born in 1752, in South- bridge, Massachusetts, and was among the early settlers of Lowville, Lewis county, this state, where he cleared up land and engaged in agri- culture. He was one of the respected and worthy citizens of that town, where he died in 1831. Ilis wife, Anna Gibbs, was a native of old Sud- bury, Massachusetts, a daughter of Mr. and Anna (Townsend) Gibbs, of that town. The time of her death is not known. Their family included six children. Jonathan Ball served as a soldier through the Revolution.
Jonathan Ball (2), son of Jonathan and Anna Ball, was born Au- gust 15, 1783, in Southbridge, Massachusetts, and was about at his ma- jority when he removed with his parents to Lowville, New York. His active life was there devoted to farming, and he was a man of influence in the town, and highly respected by his neighbors. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, emulating his father's example in defending his native land against invading enemies.
Mr. Ball was married September 5, 1805, to Lucinda Ballard, who was born February 5, 1786, in Hatfield, Massachusetts, a daughter of John and Ann ( Dickinson ) Ballard. They had four sons and two daugh- ters. Mr. Ball died at Lowville, January 24, 1833. in his fiftieth year, and was survived nearly twenty-four years by his widow, who passed away November 20, 1856, at Belmont, New York.
(VI) John Ballard Ball, son of Jonathan (2) and Lucinda ( Bal- lard) Ball, was born September 6, 1811, in Lowville, New York. He attended the public school of his native town, and assisted his father on the home farm until he was grown up. He then learned the harness- maker's trade and followed it for a short time, returning to the farm upon the death of his father. For three years he managed the farm for his mother, achieving a large degree of success as a reward for his untiring
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