Alexander Ball

Alexander Ball

• Father: Daniel Freeman Ball b. circa 1819
• Mother: Catherine Alexander b. circa 1824

• Alexander Ball was born in August 1846 in New Jersey.
• Daniel Freeman Ball and Catherine Alexander appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1850 in Clinton Township, Essex County, New Jersey. Other members of the household included Alexander Ball, Isaiah S. Ball and Newell Ball.
• Daniel Freeman Ball and Catherine Alexander appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Clinton Township, New Jersey. Other members of the household included Alexander Ball, Isaiah S. Ball, Newell Ball, Theron Ball and Mary Macomb Ball.
• He was an apprentice carpenter, according to the 1860 census.
• He married Laura Sudler, daughter of John R. Sudler and Sarah A. (?), on 1 December 1869 in Sussex County, Delaware, with Rev. Joseph Cook officiating.
• Alexander Ball and Laura Sudler, appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1870 in Northwest Fork Hundred, Sussex County, Delaware, and one female domestic servant.
• He was a retail merchant, according to the 1870 census.
• Alexander Ball and Laura Sudler appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1880 in Northwest Fork Hundred, Delaware, and a female domestic servant and a young male store clerk.. Other members of the household included Catharine Sudler Ball and Charles S. Ball.
• He was a lumber merchant, according to the 1880 census.
• He married Olive G. Sinclaire on 28 April 1887 in Manhattan, New York.
• Alexander Ball and Olive G. Sinclaire appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, at 225 Sixth Avenue. Other members of the household included Charles S. Ball.
• He was a bookkeeper, according to the 1900 census.
• Alexander Ball appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in Portland, Cumberland County, Maine, at Brighton Avenue an inmate at City Home & Hospital.

• Last Edited: 5 Jun 2011