Richard Amos Ball
Richard Amos Ball was a British Methodist Episcopal Church minister in Canada.
Ball was born in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, the son of a fugitive slave who had made use of the Underground Railroad to come to this community. His father was a lay preacher in the congregation that later built the British Methodist Episcopal Church, Salem Chapel in St. Catharines. Richard later became a lay minister in the congregation and was ordained as a Deacon of the British Methodist Episcopal Church in 1892.
Part of Ball's historical significance comes from his association with the St. Catharines church and its famous parishioner, Harriet Tubman.
