William Ballou Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: Photo 520
Scope and Content
The William Ballou Photograph collection contains 5 items. Three are photographic prints, one is of William Ballou as an elderly man, the second print appears to be a copy made from a painting, and the third is a photographic postcard of William Ballou with Emil Seidel, Milwaukee Mayor (1910-1912), S.B. Salverson, and others seated in a car. There are also two cased photographs. One appears to be an ambrotype, and shows an unidentified woman holding a baby. It is in very poor condition. The second cased photograph is a daguerreotype of an unidentified man.
Dates
- 1860s-1930s
Access
The collection is open under the rules and regulations of the NDSU Archives.
Copyrights
Copyrights to this collection are in public domain.
Biography
William Martin Ballou was born to Universalist Minister. Levi Ballou and his wife, Elvira (Goodell) Ballou on the 26th September 1864 in North Orange, Mass. His father died a year after his birth. From 1879-1880 he studied Latin in Boston. From 1880 to 1883 he attended Tufts College, in Medford, Mass. He came to Devils Lake, Dakota Territory in July, 1883. We filed a claim in Cato township, in Ramsey County. After four years returned to his education, first at the University of Michigan, and then the University of Minnesota. He returned to North Dakota in 1889 and became a minister with the First Unitarian society in Fargo. He held this position until 1897, when he resigned and entered Harvard for special study. He served as a minister at the Unity church in Amherst, Mass., and traveled to southern Europe. He returned to Fargo in 1900, and engaged in a china and crockery business. Around 1915, he spent a year in Spokane, Wash. and there met Olivia Dahl. They were married in Chicago, Ill. She was a concert singer and voice teacher, and Mr. Ballou wrote as a music critic for the Fargo Forum newspaper. Mrs. Ballou died in 1930, and William Ballou died on May 14, 1941, in Fargo.
Extent
3 Photographic Prints (3 photographic prints,)
1 Photographic Prints (1 ambrotype )
1 Photographic Prints (1 daguerreotype )
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Fargo resident, Unitarian minister, and music critic for the Fargo Forum newspaper.
Provenance
Donated by Stewart Schlipf, 1953 (Acc. 46)
Property rights
The NDSU Archives owns the property rights to this collection.
- Title
- Finding Aid to the William Ballou Photograph Collection
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Institute for Regional Studies Repository
Contact:
West Building N
3551 7th Avenue North
Fargo North Dakota 58102 United States
ndsu.archives@ndsu.edu
West Building N
3551 7th Avenue North
Fargo North Dakota 58102 United States
ndsu.archives@ndsu.edu