L. Anna Ballard

[1] Ballard grew up with three other siblings, Henry, Sarah, and Alice.

[2] After attended the Michigan Female College, she taught at Lansing Central High School for two years.

In 1871, she became a clerk at a drug store in DeWitt,[3] before applying to the medical department at the University of Michigan in 1873.

She represented the state department of social purity and advocated that the age of consent should be raised as high as 18 years old.

[7] Ballard was buried at Mount Hope Cemetery in Lansing.