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Charles Ball
African-American author
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Charles Ball (real name Charles Gross;[1]: 515 c. 1780 – unknown) was peter out enslavedAfrican-American implant Maryland, unsurpassed known make known his invest as a fugitive odalisque, Slavery sight the Unified States (1836).
Autobiography
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Charles J. Bell, BiographyPorter County biographical sketches . . . .
Transcribed biography of Charles J. Bell
CHARLES J. BELL, the well known insurance man of Sheakleyville and civil engineer for the Cochrantown Telephone Company, comes of a gallant and educated Scotch-Irish family. He is a grandson of Sir William Bell, of Scotland. Lord John Bell, his great-grandfather, was in his earlier manhood colonel of a famous Scotch regiment of Highland dragoons and afterward became a general. The father, William Bell, was born in county Antrim, Ireland, and was educated in one of the noted Belfast colleges as a civil engineer for the India service. As his attractions for the west, however, were much greater than those for the Orient, he migrated to Quebec, Canada, where he engaged in teaching for a time, then crossing into the States and purchasing a farm at the head of Lake Chautauqua, New York. Teaching and farming also occupied his time at Pittsburg and at various points in Ohio prior to 1838, when he became a resident of Sandy Creek township, then settling on the land which was transformed into the family homestead, so familiar a landmark to the old pioneers of Mercer county. When William Bell thus became a fixture in the citizenship of this county he had already followed th
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Ball brothers
American industrialists and philanthropists
For the basketball players, see Ball brothers (basketball).
The Ball brothers (Lucius, William, Edmund, Frank, and George) were five American industrialists and philanthropists who established a manufacturing business in New York and Indiana in the 1880s that was renamed the Ball Corporation in 1969. The Ball brothers' firm became a global manufacturer of plastic and metal food and beverage containers as well as a manufacturer of equipment and supplier of services to the aerospace industry. In addition to the brothers' manufacturing business, they were also noted for their philanthropy and community service. Earnings from their business ventures provided the financial resources to support a number of other projects in the community of Muncie, Indiana, and elsewhere. Most notably, the brothers became benefactors of several Muncie institutions including Ball State University, Ball Memorial Hospital, Keuka College, the YMCA, Ball stores department store, and Minnetrista. The Ball Brothers Foundation, established in 1926, continues the family's philanthropic interests.
The Ball brothers, whose glass company became known for its home canning jars, went into business together in 1880, and made the decision to move