. History of Cheshire and Sullivan counties, New Hampshire. [&/ /^^^i. WINCHESTER. 583 every enterprise having for its object the gen-eral good of the community, may be found thename of Ball. In 1799 we find that Stephen Ball, a resident ofWarwick, Mass., married Betsey Weld, of thesame place, and to them was born David Ball, thesubject of this sketch, October 7, 1801, and wasthe eldest of the family. His boyhood, like mostyouths of those days, was spent mainly at thehome of his parents until about 1817 or 1818,when he came to Keene, N. H., and engaged asa clerk in mercantile business with Mr.
. History of Cheshire and Sullivan counties, New Hampshire. [&/ /^^^i. WINCHESTER. 583 every enterprise having for its object the gen-eral good of the community, may be found thename of Ball. In 1799 we find that Stephen Ball, a resident ofWarwick, Mass., married Betsey Weld, of thesame place, and to them was born David Ball, thesubject of this sketch, October 7, 1801, and wasthe eldest of the family. His boyhood, like mostyouths of those days, was spent mainly at thehome of his parents until about 1817 or 1818,when he came to Keene, N. H., and engaged asa clerk in mercantile business with Mr. Whee-lock; from there he removed a few years laterto the village of West Winchester, continuingin the same line of business with WilliamF. Pulsifer, later as Pulsifer & Ball, Ball &Capron and D. & A. W. Ball. He marriedFanny P. Capron, December 29, 1825. Hewas also identified with other kinds of business,being interested in purchasing real estate, thelumber business and later in manufacturing. Mr. W. F. Pulsifer, his partner, died Febru-ary 22,1837, lea
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