JOHN BALLACK - Biography

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This biography appears on page 668 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.

JOHN BALLACK, farmer, Sec. 11; P. O. Union Grove was born in Banffshire,
Scotland, June 8, 1830 was brought to Montreal, Canada, by his mother,
in 1835, and met by his father, who had come out one year previously;
lived in Montreal, and then in Dover. He was educated in Dover; is now a
farmer, and owns 250 acres of land in Dover, including seventy-three
acres of the celebrated Howe farm. He married, in Necedah, Juneau Co.,
Wis., Nov. 20, 1855, Mary Sarles, a native of York State; has three
children- S. Emily, Charles A. and William G. He also owns 320 acres of
land in Traill Co., D. T., and is there at the present time, supervising
and working it; attends United Presbyterian Church.