Ball Brothers
The Ball brothers, best known for their home canning jars, first when going into business together in 1880. Their parents, Lucius Styles Ball (1814-1878) and Maria Polly Bingham Ball (1822-1892) had six sons and two daughters: Lucina Amelia, Lucius Lorenzo, William Charles, Edmund Burke, Frank Clayton, Mary Frances, George Alexander, and Clinton Harvey. The family was raised in eastern Ohio and in upstate New York.
After leaving New York for Muncie, Indiana in 1885, the Ball family has continued to generously invest into the community and has grown Muncie’s culture. The first factory was opened in 1888 and since then the company has subsequently expanded and diversified the enterprise. The family’s corporation has provided countless jobs to a large number of Hoosiers and contributed to the commerce of the city and region. By 1937, the value of the company was estimated at nearly seven million dollars. In the following decades, the families generosity provided Ball State University, Ball Memorial Hospital, the local YMCA, and the Minnetrista cultural center and golf course to the community.
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