Lacrosse-Green-Dane County WI Archives Biographies.....Balch, M. B. 1836 - 
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REV. M. B. BALCH, Pastor of the First M. E. Church, is a native of Bennington 
Co., Vt.; born in 1836. In his infancy, his parents removed to Saratoga 
Springs, N. Y., where he spent his early life. His father, W. D. Balch, was 
proprietor of the Columbian Hotel, at Saratoga Springs, from 1841 to 1866, and 
still resides in that place. Mr. Balch was educated at the Troy Conference 
Academy and Troy University, N. Y., and studied law with Judge Willard and 
Judge Crane, of Saratoga, but was never admitted to the bar. He also carried 
on the drug business for some time at Saratoga. He entered the regular army 
the day after Ft. Sumter was first fired upon; enlisted for one year, and 
served as Hospital Steward, at Ft. Leavenworth, Kan., till he was discharged, 
at the end of the year. After he left the army, he came to Wisconsin, and was 
engaged in farming in Green Co., about three years. He was then employed by 
the Grand Lodge of Good Templars, as State Lecturer, till 1867; then went to 
Boston, and continued in the same work two years in Massachusetts; returned to 
Monroe, Wis., in 1869, and in 1870, entered the ministry of the M. E. Church. 
He was first stationed at Madison, Wis., for a few months, to fill an 
unexpired term, and came to La Crosse in the fall of 1870, where he remained 
three years; was then one year at Black River Falls, two years at the Lake 
Street Church, in Eau Claire, then back to Black River Falls two years, and in 
Mineral Point two years, coming to La Crosse, the second time, Oct. 1, 1880. 
He was married, in 1867, to Miss Hattie, daughter of Dr. William Monroe, of 
Monroe, Green Co., Wis., and has one son, Willie.

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From History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 735.

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