BALLARD, Granville
Granville Ballard
Source: Nicholson, Meredith. The Hoosiers. New York: Macmillan, 1900, 288 pgs.
"An Indiana Choir" p 251 -- George W. Julian ... hardly added subsequently to the reputation he had gained prior to the publication of Coggeshall's book and the same is true of Granville M. Ballard who was born in KY (1833) and after his graduation from Asbury University became a resident of Indianapolis where he is still living.
Source Dunn, Jacob Piatt. Greater Indianapolis: The History, The Industries, The Institutions, And The People Of A City Of Homes. Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1910, p. 515
In fact when one looks over the vast expanse of original work in the Locomotive, and some additional in other papers, he is not surprised that when Coggeshall issued his Poets & Poetry of the West in 1860, he included the following who had been residents of Indianapolis in addition to Mrs. Bolton; Granville M. Ballad ....