Bland Ballard

Birth Date

1819-09-04

Death Date

1879-07-29

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Shelbyville and Louisville, Kentucky, lawyer. Kentucky native. Married to Sarah Shelby McDowell. Father of Mary Ballard and Austin Ballard. Graduated from Shelby College and Hanover College. Graduated law school at Transylvania University in 1846. Appointed Judge of the U.S. District Court for Kentucky by Abraham Lincoln on October 20, 1861.

H. Levin, ed., Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky (Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1897). Thomas Marshall Green, Historic Families of Kentucky (Baltimore: Regional Publishing Co., 1964 [reprint]) pp. 78-79. Sallie E. Marshall Hardy, “Some Kentucky Lawyers of the Past and Present,” The Green Bag: An Entertaining Magazine for Lawyers, Vol. IX (Boston: Boston Book Co., 1897) pp. 262-63. “Death of Judge Bland Ballard,” The New York Times, July 30, 1879, p.1 col. 6.

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