TRUMBULL COUNTY OHIO - BIOS: BALL, George A. (published 1931)
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INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931 - Volume V, page 67

        GEORGE A. BALL, is the youngest of the group of brothers whose
activities have been such a great contribution to Indiana's industrial
prosperity, and has contributed in full measure to the technical ability
and sound business sense to the wonderful success of the organization.
        Mr. Ball, like his brothers, was born on a farm in Trumbull County,
Ohio, November 5, 1862, son of Lucius Styles and Maria (Bingham) Ball. The
history of his family in detail is given on other pages of this
publication. Mr. Ball in recent years has been given many honors and
responsibilities in his home community of Muncie. In 1929 he was reelected
president of the Muncie Chapter of the American Red Cross. He is a member
of the Rotary Club, the Union League and Grolier Clubs of New York,
Congressional Country and Army, Navy and Marine Clubs of Washington, and
the Bibliophile Society and Omar Khayyam Club of Boston. If he has any
hobby it has been books, of which he has been a collector of old and rare
items for several years. He has fully cooperated with this brothers in
their institutions, including the disposition of funds and property that
made possible the Ball State Teachers College at Muncie, and the James
Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children at Indianapolis. Mr. Ball is a
thirty-third degree Scottish Rite Mason. His only daughter, Elizabeth Ball,
was graduated from Vassar College in 1923.


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