WILLIAM 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.

WILLIAM BALLACK, father of John and James; born in Banffsbire, Scotland,
in 1795; went to Montreal, Canada, in 1834, and lived there eighteen
months, where he left, to go to Black Rock, near Buffalo, N. Y., and
then to Freeport, Ill.; in 1840, he came to Dover. He married, in
Banffshire, in 1821, Margaret Bremner, of the same place. They have
three children- James and John, whose biographies are above, and
Janette, who married Thomas Graham, a resident of Dover.