George H. Ball

George Harvey Ball (1819–1907) was an American academic, pastor, writer, and founder of Keuka College in New York.

Ransom Dunn, a Free Will Baptist minister befriended Ball and introduced him to that denomination.

Bates College later awarded Ball an honorary doctorate of divinity.

[3] Ball married Maria L. Bensly and served as a pastor in Chester, Ohio, and principal of Geauga Seminary in Ohio where he taught future President James A. Garfield and future First Lady Lucretia Garfield.

Ball returned to Buffalo and during the election of 1884 was known for his investigation of a scandal involving Grover Cleveland fathering a child out of wedlock.