Timothy Horton Ball (February 16, 1826 – November 8, 1913) was an American historian, missionary, preacher, author, and teacher. He is known for writing ''The Creek War of 1813 and 1814.'' The book is a well-known source for
Choctaw
The Choctaw ( ) people are one of the Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands of the United States, originally based in what is now Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. The Choctaw language is a Western Muskogean language. Today, Choct ...
and
Creek Indian history.
Personal life
Ball was born on February 16, 1826, in Massachusetts.
Ball came from a wealthy New England family and was able to receive a baccalaureate and master's degree from Franklin College.
[
] He later earned a divinity degree from
Newton Theological Institution
Newton Theological Institution was a Baptist theological seminary founded on November 28, 1825 in Newton Centre, Massachusetts.
Newton adopted the graduate education model and three-year curriculum pioneered by Andover Theological Seminary, wit ...
in 1863.
Ball was a prolific writer.
As a historian, he made intricate notes with former settlers.
Many of his books are hundreds of pages in length.
His works can be found in the Library of Congress.
Ball died on November 8, 1913, at Sheffield, Alabama.
He was buried in
Clarke County, Alabama
Clarke County is a County (United States), county located in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Alabama. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 23,087. The county seat is Grove Hill, Alabama, Grove Hill. T ...
.
Works
* Ball, Timothy H.''Lake County, Indiana, from 1834 to 1872''. Chicago : J.W. Goodspeed, 1873.
* Ball, Timothy H. and
Henry S. Halbert
Henry Sale Halbert (January 14, 1837 – May 9, 1916) was an American historian. He is known for writing ''The Creek War of 1813 and 1814.'' The book is a well known source for Choctaw and Creek Indian history.
Personal life
Halbert was born ...
.''The Creek War of 1813 and 1814.'' Chicago, Illinois: Donohue & Henneberry; Montgomery, Alabama: White, Woodruff, & Fowler, 1895.
* Ball, Timothy H. ''Northwestern Indiana from 1800 to 1900; or, A view of our region through the nineteenth century.'' Chicago: Donohue & Henneberry, printers, 1900.
* Ball, Timothy H. ''Francis Ball's Descendants, Or, the West Springfield Ball Family from 1640 to 1902.'' Press of J. J. Wheeler, 1902.
* Ball, Timothy H. ''Encyclopedia of genealogy and biography of Lake County, Indiana, with a compendium of history, 1834-1904 : a record of the achievements of its people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation.'' Evansville, Ind. : Unigraphic, 1904.
See also
*
William Bartram
William Bartram (April 20, 1739 – July 22, 1823) was an American naturalist, writer and explorer. Bartram was the author of an acclaimed book, now known by the shortened title Bartram's ''Travels'', which chronicled his explorations of the S ...
*
Cyrus Byington
Cyrus Byington (March 11, 1793 – December 31, 1868) was a Christian missionary from Massachusetts who began working with the Choctaw in Mississippi in 1821. Although he had been trained as a lawyer, he abandoned law as a career and became a mi ...
*
Horatio B. Cushman
*
Angie Debo
Angie Elbertha Debo (January 30, 1890 – February 21, 1988),
*
Henry S. Halbert
Henry Sale Halbert (January 14, 1837 – May 9, 1916) was an American historian. He is known for writing ''The Creek War of 1813 and 1814.'' The book is a well known source for Choctaw and Creek Indian history.
Personal life
Halbert was born ...
*
Gideon Lincecum
Gideon Lincecum (22 April 1793 – 28 November 1874) was an American pioneer, historian, physician, philosopher, and naturalist. Lincecum is known for his exploration and settlement of what are now the U.S. states of Alabama, Mississippi, and T ...
*
John R. Swanton
John Reed Swanton (February 19, 1873 – May 2, 1958) was an American anthropologist, folklorist, and linguist who worked with Native American peoples throughout the United States. Swanton achieved recognition in the fields of ethnology and ethn ...
References
External links
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Lowell Public Library's Timothy H. Ball Website
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Historians of Native Americans
1826 births
1913 deaths
Writers from Massachusetts
Historians from Massachusetts