Portrait and biographical album of Ingham and Livingston counties, Michigan, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the counties ... the governors of the state and of all the presidents of the United States.

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31, 1888, at the residence of Dr. Ballard with whom
she had made her home after her husband's death.
Mr. and Mrs. Ballard celebrated their golden wedding on Thanksgiving Day, November 26, 1880, at
which time they were the recipients of sincerest
congratulations and substantial remembrances
from hosts of friends.
The entire family of ten children lived to manhood and womanhood. James Allen, the eldest,
enlisted in 1861 in the Third MIichigan Infantry,
serving his country faithfully until he dropped
dead on one of those Virginia marches, a victim of
heart disease. May 5, 1864; Sindenia A. married
l)r.G. W. Topping, of DeWitt, Clinton County.
Mich.; David E. became a pioneer settler of Kansas. After seeing that State through its troubulous
times he enlisted early in the war and was made
Quartermaster-General of his regiment. Ile has
continued a citizen of Kansas, being twice elected
to the Legislature. For some years he has resided
at Ballard's Falls, Washington County, owning
there a magnificent farm of eighteen hundred acres,
besides valuable property at the county seat. He
has a family of nine children; HIenry 1). also enlisted in 1861, in the Second Regiment, Michigan
Sharpshooters, in which he did faithful service
until disabled by a bullet wound in the shoulder,
when he was transferred to hospital service until
the close of the war. lie is engaged in gardening
near Oshkosh, Wis.; Eunice, wh-o was possessed of
an adventurous spirit and missionary zeal, for some
years taught Government Indian schools at Sault
St. Marie, and at Mt. Pleasant. At the latter place
she married Albert Bowker. After removing to a
farm in Oliver, Clinton County, she died leaving
a young child; Alonzo, who went to the war at the
age of seventeen, in the First Regiment of Micligan Sharpshooters, has also adopted Kansas for his
home, and is a successful merchant in Barnes, Washington County; Everett, the youngest son, is still
a resident of the old home place in Lansing; Dr.
Ballard is the next in order of age; Sarah M.
married William E. West, and is living at Lansing;
Alice, the youngest of the family, after graduating
from the Lansing IHigh School, took a select course
in Boston University, and while there married her
cousin, W. 0. Crosby, professor of geology in the

Massachusetts School of Technology. Their lhome
is a few miles out of Boston.
Dr. L. Anna Ballard was born in this city July
21, 1848, the family having come to the State the
April previous. Ier early life was spent here and
she was educated in the city schools and in the
Misses Rodger's Female College, which in those
years was a center of culture, and from which her
eldest sister had graduated before her. After engaging in teaching for two years she entered the
drug store of Dr. Topping, at I)e Witt, where she
continued for three years as drug clerk and student
of medicine. Then taking a course in the medical
department of Michigan University, she went to
Chicago and continued her studies, spending six
months as dispensary physician in the Hospital for
Women and Children, which is under the supervision of Dr. Mary IT. Thompson. Following this
she entered the Woman's Medical College of Chicago, from which she was graduated in the spring
of 1878, receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine. On competitive examination she was given
the position of resident physician in the Hospital
for Women and Children, which she retained six
months. To acquire still more knowledge and
skill to administer to the ills of humanity, she devoted a few montls more to the work of dispensary
visiting phlysician, visiting those destitute women
who were too ill to go to the dispensary.
Thus equipped for her life work, in April, 1879,
lr. Ballard returned to her clildhood's home
where she could give that care to her aged father
and mother that their declining healtl required.
She opened an office as physician and surgeon in
the central part of the city and with persistence
won, and zealously maintained her position in the
front rank of the profession in the city. She was
one of the organizers of the Lansing Medical Society in 1882, at which time she was elected Secretary and was continued in the position for seven
years, after whicl she was elected President, holding tle chair for one year. At the deatll of l)r.
Shank, the oldest physician of Lansing, the peculiar
lion or was paid I)r. Ballard of being selected by
him, and his selection being endorsed by the Medical Society to deliver an address at his funeral in
behalf of the medical profession. In this effort she