The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-08-27
Was Among the Earliest Pi-
oneers of Dakota Terri
tory and Well Known.
CAME OF DISTINGUISHED
REVOLUTIONARY ANCESTRY
belonged to Same Family as Mary
Ball. Mother of Wasfincton-Sery.
ed i'm Civil War and has been Prom.
incnt in State Affairs.
Colonel Wilbur +. Rall, a prominent

Colonel Wilbur F. Fall, prominent
figure in North Dakota affairs since
lei,. when he located in Fargo. pass
ed away today. Death came to the
pioneer at the old home in Fargo.
MI Rall suffered stroke of paralysis
about Year ago. For a long time
after nc WAS stricken he lay in a state
of coma and his death was not unex-
p"cted He was one of the most
prominent lawyers of Fargo and one
of the hest known men in North Da-
knta.
II" was horn in Nor,hum herla nd,
Pa. June IS. 1s43. and is of English
descent. Representatives of the fa-
fnllN took prominent part in the
probationary war and to it belonged
Mary t3ai'. mother of General WASH
ington. nahney BAH. his grandfather
was a native of Virginia and farmer
who died in Washington. q. c. The
parents Of deceased. John and Sarah
'N"hhl Ban. We're natives of Virginia
and PENNSYLVANIA Respectively. The
father was minister of the Metfo-
dtst Episcopal church. as were also
three of his brothers. and he prea ched
in Virginia. Maryland and a part of
pennsylvania. He attended college
In Baltimore Md, and died In that
state In le45. His wife passed away
in 1850
During his early hovhood Mr.. Ball
attended the public schools Of Vir-
sinia and PENNSYLVANIA, but was prin-
clpaiiT Self-educated. as he began the
battle of life for himself a, the age
Of 2 Years as 'devil'' in a printing
off1'e Al Washington. D. c. Later he
was employed on SOME Of the old
newspapers fthat city and was in
the office of the Washington Consti-
tuition for a time. From there he
went 70 Baltimore, Md, and subse-
quently returned 20 Pennsylyania
working on the Titusvills Gazatfa fnr
a time. He next drifted to Canton.
o., and from there to Akron, that
state Az the opening of the civil war
he enlisted at Canton. in 1851 In .ha
Nineteenth Ohio Volunteer infantry
"u' was rejected on account of his
youth. The Same spring he again en-
hsfed and went 10 the front as mAn-
haf OF Company A. Second Ohio Cav.
any Win which he served for some
hlohfhs nshfins hushwhac ckers in
southern Kansas and Missouri Ha
WAS injured by the fan Of his horsa
ana WAS DISCHARGED Al Fort Scott.
kas.. In tho fall of 1861
Returning tn Meadville. PennsvI-
Vania. Mr.. Ball entered the seryira of
the Atlantic q Great Western railroad
as hra kNman. and after some months
spent in the employ of that company
ntca Ma connected with tbs. Buffalo 4
Erie railroad. whore he remained unt;1
the spring Of 1864. During that vear
he commenced the study of law ar
onfonas son. Mich, and on his admis-
SION 10 the har, in 1865. opened an Of
nee at Eagle River, Mich, where he
"nga ged in practice until 1865. The
loiIo"lns three Years We're passed at
'leNandf'a, Mimi. and in 1871 he
Went TO Otter Tail City. wher. ba
founded the otter Tail Record" and
c"ndlir'"d he same for one wear. He
then moved his plant to Detroit.
Mimi. and edited . paper there in CON.