In a message dated 9/7/2001 11:08:01 AM Central Daylight Time, jaguar6@home.com writes: > Subj: [INGEN] Company Information > Date: 9/7/2001 11:08:01 AM Central Daylight Time > From: jaguar6@home.com (Mike Roberts) > To: INGEN-L@rootsweb.com > > > > > I received my grandfathers SS application and it was signed and dated 1936. > It has his place of employment as BALL BROTHERS COMPANY, Muncie Indiana. > Can anyone tell me if this company is around anymore and/or what it was? > Thanks in advance! > > Mike Roberts > jaguar6@home.com > I think Ball has moved out of Muncie, but they named the State college there after the company first (Ball State). Here is a quote from Ball's home page. "In 1887, the five <A HREF="http://www.ball.com/bhome/ball_fam.html">Ball brothers</A> - Edmund, Frank, George, Lucius and William - moved their business to Muncie, Indiana to take advantage of a natural gas boom in the Midwest. Great quantities of natural gas were necessary to make glass. Ball acquired the first of several small glass companies in 1898, and printed the first Ball Blue Book - featuring home canning recipes and techniques - in 1909." Steve Norman Norman Family Genealogy: http://normangenealogy.rootsweb.com/page0001.htm