Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Ball, Elias B. February 23, 1808 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.org/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.org/ny/nyfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nan Starjak naela@earthlink.net December 29, 2007, 11:02 am Author: Hardin & Willard Ball, Elias B., Litchfield, a farmer and grocer, has been overseer of the poor, county commissioner of highways, collector, and assessor of the town of Litchfield, where he was born February 23, 1808. He is a son of John Ball, a native of New Hampshire; he was one of four brothers, Nathaniel, David, Joseph and John A., who came here the next year after the first settler, Elijah Snow, who settled this town in 1786. Elias B. Ball married first Fanny, daughter of Kellup Holden. She died leaving four children: Horatio G., Varnum, Adelia, and Celice L. He married second Mary Ann Wilkenson, by whom he has four sons and one daughter living, Ira E., Alfred J., Sarah D., Eli J. and Daniel E. Mrs. Ball is a daughter of Ira Wilkenson, one of the prominent men of this town. Additional Comments: source: History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of its citizens edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893 550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.org/ny/herkimer/bios/ball215gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/nyfiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb