Bio of BALLARD, Rollin Beecher (b.1869), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical
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ROLLIN BEECHER BALLARD - Vol II, pg 5-6
Rollin Beecher Ballard, president of Ballard & Company of Minneapolis, has a
substantial standing in financial circles throughout the Northwest, attained by
an honorable and energetic career of thirty-five years in the banking business.
Starting out at the age of eighteen as cashier in a country bank in Iowa, he is
now the president of one of the large financial corporations of this city,
organized through his efforts. The story of his business life is an account of a
consistent, steady progress in the line of work which he had selected for his
occupation; a progress made possible by a conscientious, determined effort to
perform each task to the best of his ability and to slight no opportunity to
learn more of the business in which he is engaged.
Born on a farm in Story county, Iowa, on November 23, 1869, and educated in the
schools of Nevada, Iowa, Rollin B. Ballard became cashier of the State Bank of
Radcliffe, Iowa, in 1887, when he was a lad of eighteen. He continued in the
country bank until 1890, when he entered the firm of Drake, Ballard & Company,
of which he was vice president for thirty-two years. This firm originated in
Iowa as a private enterprise and following a successful history of increasing
growth and prosperity, was incorporated in 1910. In March of 1922 Mr. Ballard
withdrew from this corporation to organize the firm of Ballard & Company, a
corporation capitalized at a million dollars, to conduct an investment banking
business, and Mr. Ballard is its president. He is also president of a bond house
of Des Moines, Iowa, known as Ballard, Hassett & Beh, Incorporated.
On the 4th of October, 1893, Mr. Ballard was married to Miss Sarah G. H. Kahrs
and they have two children: a daughter, Lucille Marie, is now the wife of Carl
C. Wurzbach of San Antonio, Texas; their son, Homer D. Ballard, who is vice
president of Ballard & Company, married Miss Helen Irvin of San Antonio, Texas.
During the recent war Homer D. Ballard was in the military service from August,
1917, to February, 1919. A lieutenant in the air service, he was stationed at
Ellington Field in charge of the United States property at that place.
Mr. R. B. Ballard is an Episcopalian in his religious faith and a member of St.
Mark's parish of Minneapolis. In the Masonic order he is identified with Khurum
Lodge, No. 112, F. & A. M.; Evergreen Chapter, No. 55, R. A. M.; Zion
Commandery, No. 2, Knights Templar, and Zuhrah Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He
is also a member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, belonging to an
Iowa lodge. Mr. Ballard's clubs are the Minneapolis, Minneapolis Athletic,
Lafayette, Minikahda and Minneapolis Golf. Mr. Ballard has always associated
with the groups of people in this city who represent the highest social,
artistic and intellectual standards, and is numbered among those prominent
business men and civic leaders who have contributed to the development of
Minneapolis as the cultural as well as the commercial center of the Northwest.