There is a community on the edge of Seattle and lake Washington named Ballinger. How it got its name, or whom it is named after, I do not Know.
According to Wikipedia, Lake Ballinger was so named after it was purchased in 1901 by Richard Achilles Ballinger, the future Secretary of the Interior, who named it after his father Richard Ballinger. It had been called Lake McAleer before then after an earlier owner of the lake.
According to Wikipedia, Lake Ballinger was so named after it was purchased in 1901 by Richard Achilles Ballinger, the future Secretary of the Interior, who named it after his father Richard Ballinger. It had been called Lake McAleer before then after an earlier owner of the lake.