Webb C. Ball

His grandparents were Zenas Ball (November 15, 1792, in South Orange, New Jersey – October 3, 1860) and Sarah Taylor (May 24, 1796 – March 30, 1860).

[2][3] His grandchildren included Isabel Andrews Burgess, a Nixon appointee to the National Transportation Safety Board.

In 1891 there was a collision between Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway trains at Kipton, Ohio, which occurred because an engineer's watch had stopped.

The new firm continues the tradition, using Swiss-made (primarily ETA) movements and making watches for sportsmen and even for some small railroads.

At the end of his career, Webb C. Ball was overseeing over 125,000 miles (201,000 km) of rail tracks in the United States, Mexico & Canada, having greatly contributed to the safety of all railroad systems.