Bio: Ed Ball,  Ouachita & Caddo Parish La
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville,  1890

Submitted by: Suzanne Shoemaker





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Ed Ball is a young business man of Shreveport, La., who has made his own 
way in the world, and is intelligent, enterprising and industrious.  He 
is at the present time manager of the Consolidated Ice Company & Bottling
Works of Shreveport and Monroe, which company operates with capital stock of
$60,000, and that he is thoroughly versed in all the requirements of his
business, and is an indefatigable worker, is well known.  

He was born in Randolph County, Ga., in March, 1857, to Ed and Harriet
(Howard) Ball, natives of South Carolina and Georgia, respectively.  The
father was a colonel in the Fifty-first Georgia Regiment, and was killed by a
gun shot in the battle of Bull Run.  He was a planter the greater portion of
his life, but at the time of his enlistment in the army he was clerk of the
district court in Georgia.  His widow survives him, and makes her home with
the subject of this sketch, in Shreveport, he being the only survivor of her
four children.  

He remained in the State of Georgia until he attained his sixteenth year, then
went with his mother to Ouachita Parish, La., where he followed planting until
1888, after which he moved to Shreveport, which place has since been his home. 
The ice factory of this place was established in 1888, it capacity being
twenty tons every twenty-four hours, and in this establishment Mr. Ball
secured a good and paying position.  The factory runs nine months in the year,
and fifteen hands are employed, the trade extending into Arkansas and Texas,
as well as throughout Northern Louisiana, a radius of 125 miles.  The product
of this establishment has an excellent reputation, and those who receive 
their supply from this factory are thoroughly satisfied in every respect. 
This establishment was put up at a cost of $50,000, and is supplied with an
absorption machine, which has a fine capacity.  The bottling works were added
soon afterward, being under the same roof as the ice factory, and in addition
to manufacturing and bottling all kinds of mineral waters, soda water, ginger
ale, they make a specialty of bottling beer, and employ twenty-five men.  Mr.
Ball is one of the stockholders of the concern, and also has an interest in
the factory at Monroe, being the general manager of both.  He is thoroughly
posted in both branches of the business, and the coming winter expects to
increase the capacity of the plant at Monroe.  

Mr. Ball married Miss Olivette Lanier, by whom he has had three children, two
now living:  Carrie and Edward.