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out the war, ranking high in the regard of his associates. After the close of the war, he reorganized the Staunton Artillery, and was elected captain of the same, in which position he continued until he withdrew from the organization December i, 1882.

On January 9, 1868, Captain Fultz mar- ried Anna Mary Morton Brown, of Phila- delphia, the only child of Dr. John Lewis Brown and Ann Elizabeth (Davis) Brown, the latter being a daughter of General John Davis, of the Pennsylvania Line, Conti- nental Army of the Revolution, and Ann (Morton) Davis, and a granddaughter of John Morton, the signer. Their three chil- dren are John Morton, David Lewis Fultz, an attorney of New York City (born at Staunton, May 29, 1875) and Mary Mar- garetha, of New York City (born at Staun- ton, January 8, 1881). Captain Fultz was a member of the city council of Staunton, and served as its president. He was elected mayor of the city of Staunton, in 1888, and occupied that office for ten years, when he removed with his family to Paoli, Pennsyl- vania.

John Morton Fultz, son of Alexander Hamilton and Anna Mary Morton (Brown) Fultz. was born in Staunton, Virginia, April 3, 1873, acquiring his early and technical education in private schools, and the Staun- ton Military Academy. During the period of his early life he was engaged in surveying in Virginia with Major Jed Hotchkiss, of Staunton, and as private secretary and col- lege instructor. As private secretary he was associated with the Hon. John Randolph Tucker, and the Hon. A. Caperton Braxton, and as instructor, taught in the Staunton Business College. In 1898 Mr. Fultz moved to Philadelphia, there entering the employ of The Philadelphia Electric Company, and in 1912 was elected secretary of the com- pany, which position he now holds. In poli- tics he is strictly independent in thought and action, and in religious belief a member of the Protestant Episcopal church.

Mr. Fultz married, April 19. 1910. Ellen Duncan Baltz. born at Whitford, Chester county, Pennsylvania. October 10, 1878, the only daughter of John Daniel and Ann (Sagehorn) Baltz. Children : John Morton, Jr., born in Philadelphia. April 28, 1913. and Sarah Ann, born in Philadelphia, February 3, 1915. Mr. John Daniel Baltz is a promi- nent attorney of Philadelphia, being de-

scended from the German family of von der Baltz. On her maternal side, Mrs. Fultz is of English ancestry, the first of whom in this country, Godfrey Hancock, settled in New Jersey, in 1678, where he owned a tract of 8.000 acres of land, including part of the present town of Burlington and its environs, and served as the representative of the First or Yorkshire Tenth in the first free general assembly of the province of West New Jer- sey, in Alay. 1682, and again in the sessions of 1684. In the sixth generation his descend- ant, Susan Bradbury Hancock, married Henry Sagehorn, a manufacturer of New York City, on April 28, 1839, they being the grandparents of Mrs. Fultz.

James William Ball. James William Ball, a well known banker and broker of New York, was born at Richmond, Virginia, April II, 1876. The father of Mr. Ball was Au- gustus Montgomery Ball, who was born in Essex county, Virginia, in 1834, and died in December, 1902. Mr. Ball, Sr., was a merchant and manufacturer of harness and sadlery at Berryville and Richmond, Vir- ginia. The mother of James William Ball was Ann Elizabeth Walker (Browne) Ball, who was born in James City county, Vir- ginia. The grandfather of James William Ball on the paternal side was a quartermas- ter in the Revolutionary war. and the Ball family with which he is connected is related to the Washington and Tyler families, the founder of the family in this country being Colonel William Ball, great-grandfather of ]\Iary (Ball) Washington, mother of General Washington, Patrije Pater.

There were several Balls in Virginia prev- ious to 1624. Some of them were from Eng- land, some from Ireland, and some presum- ably from Scotland and Wales. The name of the English families were doubtless taken from the name of districts in the midland counties, and those from Ireland and Scot- land derived in a translated or anglicised form from the ancient name O'Buachail, which in Gaelic is pronounced Ball. Robert Ball and Goodwife Ball were on the Eastern Shore, \'irginia. in 1623. Robert Ball, aged twenty-seven, in 1624. came in the ship "London Merchant" in 1619. Robert Ball's wife died in 1623 at Elizabeth City. Rich- ard Ball came in the "George" in 161 7 and was located in 1624 on the plantation of Hugh Crowder. Richard Ball, planter, re-