Jefferson County AlArchives Biographies.....Ballard, Asa N., Dr. October 17, 1842 - 
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Author: “Memorial Record of Alabama,” Volume 2, published by Brant & Fuller in Madison, WI (1893), pages 247-248

Dr. Asa N. Ballard was born in Paintersville, Ohio, October 17, 1842, and was 
educated at the National university, at Lebanon, in that state.  He graduated 
there in 1872, taking the degree of B.S. in 1871, and A. B. in 1872.  He then 
engaged in school teaching in Harrisburg, Ill., and Indianapolis, Ind., two 
years, and while in that city began the study of medicine, and attended the 
Pulte Medical college, at Cincinnati, graduating there in 1876.  He located in 
Shelby, Ohio, where he practiced successfully for eleven years.  In 1886, he 
located in Birmingham, and is still living there.  He belongs to the Alabama 
State Homeopathic society, the Southern Homeopathic, and is honorary member of 
the Ohio State Homeopathic society, and is a member of the American Institute 
of Homeopathy.  He is also a member of the pension board at Birmingham, Ala., 
and while in Shelby, Ohio, was a member of the council and school board for 
nine years.  He enlisted in October, 1861, in company D, Forty-eighth Ohio 
infantry, as a private, but rapid promotion brought him to the captaincy before 
the close of the war.  He was in the battles of Shiloh, Corinth, Holly Springs, 
Memphis, Vicksburg, Arkansas Post, siege and capture of Vicksburg, Indianola, 
Red River, and was captured at Sabine Cross Roads and taken to Tyler, Tex.  He 
was held for six months and then exchanged and afterward was I nthe battles of 
Pensacola, Selma and Fort Blakely.  He is a Mason, and a member of the 
Methodist Episcopal church.  He was married in 1874 to Mary Harrison, daughter 
of George S. Harrison of Pagetown, Ohio.  They had four children:  Asa Elwyn, 
Clarence B., Florence and Mary Pauline.  His father was David F. Ballard, a 
native of Ohio, and his mother was Priscilla Lewis of Ohio.

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