Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2010, All Rights Reserved U.S. Data Repository Please read U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on this page: Title: History of Henry and Fulton Counties, Ohio Authors: Aldrich, Lewis Cass. City of Publication: Syracuse, N.Y. : Publisher: D. Mason & Co., Publication Date: 1888 Transcribed by Linda Talbott ========================================================================== (Page 645 - Brief Personals) BALLARD, Doctor Philip, Harrison, Grelton p.o., a physician, and surgeon, of Harrison township, was born in Franklin county, Mass., in 1817. He read medicine with his brothers, Doctors Thomas and Horace Ballard. He settled in Wood county, O., in 1856, and there began the practice of medicine and surgery. He was married in 1841 to Esther Fuller, who was born in Connecticut and married in Portage county, O. They have had a family of seven children: Maria J., Albert W., P.U., J.C., L.E., S.F., and Cora D. Doctor Philip enlisted in Company I, Sixty-eighth Regiment, December 24, 1863, was detailed as field hospital surgeon and was discharged at the close of the war. Doctor Philip was a son of Oren and Margaret Ballard who settled in Trumble county, in 1820 coming there from Massachusetts. ==========================================================================