Ball, Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin Ball, born in Alexandria County, Virginia on January 15, 1839, entered Dickinson in 1857 and graduated with his class in 1860. He became a clergyman and served two terms as the "presiding elder" at the Methodist Episcopal Church south. He did not serve in the military. He married Alice A. Hobbs in February 1870, had 6 children, and died in Waynesboro, Virginia on January 26, 1923. (By Brandon Rothenberg)
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Class of 1860
    Full name
    Benjamin Franklin Ball
    Place of Birth
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Origins
    Slave State
    No. of Spouses
    1
    No. of Children
    6
    Family
    John Ball (father), Margaret A. (Shreve) Ball (mother), Alice A. Hobbs (wife)
    Education
    Dickinson (Carlisle College)
    Occupation
    Clergy
    Church or Religious Denomination
    Episcopalian
    Methodist
    How to Cite This Page: "Ball, Benjamin Franklin," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/index.php/node/5032.