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JOHN BALL, farmer, was born in Tioga county, Pennsylvania, September 28, 1852, son of Peter and Jane (Brierden) Ball. He was educated in the township schools and at a graded school at Montgomery borough; when he was seventeen years of age he was employed by the Misses Scott to manage their farm in Fairfield township, and with them he remained nineteen years and eight months. He was married in 1886 to Mary Magdalene. daughter of John Winters, by whom he has two children: Sarah, who was born April 25, 1889, and died January 8,1892, and Ruth C. He is a member of the Jr. O.U.A.M., is a Prohibitionist, and with his wife belongs to the Fairview Methodist Episcopal church, of which he is trustee and steward.
History of Lycoming County, Pa 1892
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