“The History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin”, published: Chicago: 
Western Historical Company. 1881.

Township:  City of La Crosse 


JOHN A. BALLARD, M.D., was born in Fryeburg, Oxford Co., Me., 
Feb. 11, 1842, residing there and receiving an academic education 
previous to his entering the war in 1863.  Enlisted in Co. E. of the 3d 
Maine, and served in all the battles of the Army of the Potomac, from 
the battle of the Wilderness to the battles around Petersburg, and was at 
Appomattox at the surrender of Gen. Lee.  After the war, he spent a 
winter in Massachusetts; then he came to River Falls, Wis., where he 
continued the study of medicine, which he had previously taken up with 
his brother, a practicing physician of that place.   In September, 1866, he 
entered the Chicago Medical School, from which he graduated in March, 
1868.  Immediately following his graduation, he was for six months 
house physician and surgeon in Mercy Hospital, Chicago, after which he 
spent two years in Chicago, following the practices of medicine, and also 
being the Superintendent of the Inebriate Asylum, after which he 
removed to La Crosse, since which date he has devoted his time and skill 
to the practice of medicine.  Mr. Ballard was married in Chicago, Nov. 
19, 1868, to Miss Henrietta E. Sutor, a sister of W. A. Sutor, a present 
resident of La Crosse.
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Submitted by:  Diane Scott