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John Ball was a lawyer, businessman, educator, civic leader, and traveler who was born on the Vermont frontier in 1794. Ball escaped the life of his father’s farm to study at Dartmouth College. He then practiced law, taught, and eventually settled in Grand Rapids and became a Michigan state legislator and a founder of the state’s school system. Before settling down... he led a life of great adventure. In 1832 Ball joined an expedition to Oregon, but tiring of Oregon—and suffering from the “ague”he mentions here—he boarded a Hudson Bay Company ship bound for Hawaii (or the Sandwich Islands, as they were called then). He landed in Honolulu on December 22, 1833.
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John Ball has been a police officer with the Indianapolis (IN) Police Department for eighteen years. Ball held a leadership position in the 2006 transition effort that joined the IPD with the Marion County Sheriff's Department on January 1, 2007. He currently holds the appointed rank of Deputy Chief and previously held assignments in patrol, investigations, and administration. During assignment as commander of the Strategic Planning and Emergency Preparedness Bureau, Ball oversaw citywide coordination of special event planning, including planning for the involvement in large events such as the Indianapolis 500 and professional sporting events. The bureau was ... responsible for planning on matters related to domestic preparedness, including policy development, grant coordination, and regional coordination.
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PhereSys Therapeutics Corporation announced today that John Ball, MD, has joined PhereSys Therapeutics as its Midwest Regional Medical Director. Dr. Ball graduated from the George Washington University School of Medicine and was the Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago before assuming his current positions as Medical Director at Logan Square Dialysis
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John Ball Jr. first began competing in the British Open at the age of fifteen, at St Andrews and finish 6th, and at the age of seventeen, in 1878 at Prestwick, he placed fifth. He played in his first British Amateur in 1875 and won his first British Amateur in 1888. In 1890 he was the first golfer to win the British Amateur and the British Open in the same year. The only other golfer to match this feat was Bobby Jones forty years later in 1930 won he captured the Grand Slam. John Ball r. went on to win the British Amateur six more times. The British Open win was the first by an amateur.
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John Ball now became a travelling priest and gave sermons in local churches. While preaching in Norfolk the Bishop of Norwich ordered his imprisonment. After he was released he began touring Essex and Kent. When the Archbishop of Canterbury heard about this he gave orders that John Ball should not be allowed to preach in church. John Ball responded by giving talks on the village green.
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John Ball Jr. was born in Hoylake, England in 1861. He grew up playing golf at Hoylake against Harold Hilton. Even though he was known as a shy man he had a high competitive spirit. John Ball Jr. won the British Amateur eight times and the British Open once. He was to British amateur golf as Bobby Jones was the amateur golf in America.
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