Richard Amos Ball

Richard Amos Ball (30 November 1845 – 22 December 1925) was a British Methodist Episcopal Church (BMEC) 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 Ste Catherines. 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. Catherines Church and its famous parishioner, Harriet Tubman.

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