![]() ![]() In 1923, duPont hired Edward Ball, one of Ball duPont's four siblings to survive to adulthood. Retired from teaching, Ball duPont oversaw maintenance of the family estate, took over raising her husband's daughter, Denise, and began to assist duPont in his business. The couple made their home in the Nemours Mansion and Gardens in Wilmington, Delaware. After the 1920 death of his second wife, they entered a courtship which resulted in marriage on January 22, 1921. duPont when she was 14 and he 34, and they maintained a correspondence thereafter. du Pontīall duPont had met and befriended Alfred I. Eventually vice-principal of the elementary school where she was employed, she contributed to the upkeep of her elderly father and mother until they died in 19, respectively. As a young adult, she began amassing profits from the stock market and real estate which she used to fund need-based college scholarships. She continued that career after moving in 1909 with her family to San Diego, California. She taught at the Shiloh School in Northumberland County in 1906-1907. She earned a Life Certificate from the Farmville (Virginia) Normal School and began teaching in Lancaster County, Virginia, at the age of 18. Aside from a year in Austin, Texas and a year in Baltimore, Maryland, Ball duPont grew up in Virginia. ![]() Jessie Dew Ball was born on January 20, 1884, in Hardings, Northumberland County, Virginia to Lalla Gresham and Thomas Ball, a Confederate Civil War veteran and attorney. Jessie Ball duPont (Janu– September 26, 1970) was an American teacher, philanthropist and designated a Great Floridian by the Florida Department of State. ![]()
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