Dr. C. W. Ball,  W. Feliciana Parish, Louisiana
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Dr. C. W. Ball
        West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana
    Dr. C. W. Ball.  Among the people of West Feliciana as well as the
surrounding parishes, the name that heads this sketch is by no means an
unfamiliar one, for since he attained his twenty-first year he has been
active and successfully occupied in the prosecution of his chosen
profession, and during this time his career as a practitioner
and-thorough student of medicine has won for him no less a reputation
than does his personal characteristics as a citizen and friend.  He was
born in Louisiana, February 2, 1855, a son of William and Julia (Wilson)
Ball, the former a native of the state of Louisiana, whose ancestors for
many years back have been residents of the South.  The mother's people
were from the state of New York.  William Ball was a druggist by
calling, but in the latter part of his life followed the occupation of
planting.  He followed the former calling in Bayou Sara from 1855 to
1860, in Shreveport from 1860 to 1865, and from 1860 to 1873 was in a
wholesale and retail drug establishment in New Orleans, belonging to
Ball, Lyond & Co.  From 1873 to 1876 his attention was devoted to sugar
planting quite extensively in West Feliciana parish, La., where he died
in 1876.  Dr. C. W. Ball attended the public school at New Orleans up to
the age of about fifteen years, from which time until he was eighteen he
was an attendant of Sewanee college, Tennessee.  He then entered Tulane
university at New Orleans, from which he was graduated after two
sessions at the age of twenty-one, having taken a post-graduate course.
He at once opened up an office for the practice of his profession at New
Orleans. but one year later moved to Alexandria, La., at which place he
spent eighteen months.  Immediately following this he returned to New
Orleans, but after one year's practice at this place yellow fever broke
out and he was employed by the Howard association and sent to Green
Junction, Tenn.  After the scourge abated he returned to New Orleans,
and in 1879 came to the plantation in this parish where he is following
the practice of his profession and is engaged in cotton planting.  He is
interested in a plantation of 1,500 acres, and has about one-half of
this land under cultivation.  He handles some 400 bales of cotton
yearly.  He was a parish coroner from 1880 to 1884, when he was elected
to the lower house of the state legislature, being honored by a
re-election in 1888, during which time he was on the committees of
health, quarantine, charitable institutions and corporations.  The
Doctor is unmarried.  He is one of the substantial business men of the
parish and is sociable and hospitable.

From Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, volume 2, p.
260.
Submitted by Mike Miller