Lake County IN Archives Biographies.....Ball, James Hervey 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

JAMES HERVEY BALL, Esq.

    James H. Ball, of whom a likeness is here given, youngest son of Judge
Hervey Ball, was fifteen months of age when his father settled at Cedar Lake. A
student for a time at Franklin College in Indiana, he became a teacher in the
public schools of Lake county, and at length school examiner of the county. He
held as county examiner the third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh county
institutes. He made the first official school visitations before they were
required by law.

    In 1871 he graduated at the Law School of the University of Chicago. He was
in active life in Lake county for several years. He has been for some time a
resident in Scott, Kansas, where he has a law office, and he has been for two
terms probate judge of Scott county.

    Before leaving Crown Point he erected four brick dwelling houses which still
remain as memorials of his enterprise, as well as his work for many years in
educational lines.

    He now holds, in Scott county, quite a tract of land, through which flows a
stream of water, making it valuable for grass and for pasturage. On this pasture
land he keeps some fine cattle of the Galloway variety. His place is called
"Edith Ranch."


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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904


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