Ball, J. M.

J. M. BALL, one of the Cochise County delegation in the First State Legislature, and one of the best equipped pharmacists in the State, has proven an able worker in the lower house lor any cause which he champions. Mr. Ball is a member of the firm of Ball & Bledsoe, the leading druggists of Bisbee, and is thoroughly conversant with the requirements and details of the drug business. His father, Willis T. Ball, was a druggist in Jeddo, Missouri, where J. M. Ball was born in 1869, and was educated in the public schools. Having finished the course there he took first an academic and later a special course in pharmacy at the University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri. He has since been engaged in the compounding of drugs, has, in fact, been in the drug business all his life. On coming to Arizona, in 1898, he held a position as pharmacist for a time, but soon became a member of the present firm...."
Source: Who's Who in Arizona. Volume I. 1913 (pages 654-655). [Includes photo.]