Ballenbaugh I
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Character Key:
Display Name:
Ballenbaugh I
Sort Name:
Ballenbaugh I
Race:
White
Gender:
Male
Class:
Lower Class
Rank:
Minor
Vitality:
Dead
Occupation:
Sales and Service
Specific Job:
Innkeeper
First Mentioned:
Biography:
The first Ballenbaugh in Yoknapatawpha is as colorful as the place that bears his name. An "ancestryless giant," he arrived in the county "from nowhere" and by some means - the narrative implies a coercive one - took over the store and ferry run by a man named Wylie (72). Under his ownership, the place became a "roaring" one: a "grubbing station and saloon" for the wagon-drivers who passed through on the way to or from Memphis (72).
Property Status:
owns land
owns business
Individual or Group:
Individual
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