HBRRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Ballou, Aaron Bryan, physician, scientist, was born July 29, 1831, in Eagle Harbor, N. Y. He was a distinguished scientist and owned one of the best individual geological and mineralogical collections in the state of
Indiana. He died about 1900 in Burnett Creek, Ind. Ballou, Adin, clergyman, author, was born in 1803 in Rhode Island. He was a universalist clergyman of Milford, Mass. He was the author, of Christian Non-Resistance Defended; Treatise on Spirit Manifestations; Primitive Christianity and its Corruptions; and History of the Town of Milford. He died in 1890 in Milford, Mass. Ballou, Daniel R., soldier, lawyer, legislator, was born Aug. 6, 1837, in Smithfleld, R.I. He received his education in the schools of Rhode Island; and the Brown university. During the civil war he served as a union soldier in the twelfth regiment Rhode Island volunteer infantry
and was promoted lieutenant. He was also a colonel in the Rhode
Ballou, Hosea, farmer, merchant, genealowas born July 12, 1827, in Fenner, N.Y. He is a successful business man of Ohio. He aided greatly in collecting historical data for the genealogy of the Ballou family. He died March 4, 1898, in Sullivan, Ohio. Ballou, Hosea, 2d, clergyman, college president, author, was born Oct. 18, 1796, in Halifax, Vt. He was a universalist clergyman; and the first president of Tufts college in 1854-61. He was the author of Ancient History of Universalism. He died May 27, 1861, in Somerville, Mass. Ballou, Hosea Starr, banker, author, was born Feb. 9, 1857, in North Orange, Mass. He graduated from the Harvard university; and from the university of Berlin. He is a successful financier and banker of Boston, Mass. He is the author of Hosea Ballou, 2d; Studies; Measures of Municipal and Industrial Credits. Ballou, Latimer Whipple, financier, banker, congressman, author, was born March 1, 1812, in Cumberland, R.I. He commenced life as a printer; and was one of the founders of the Cambridge Press, gist, poet,
Island militia. He has served as a member of the Rhode Island general
assembly
Ballou, Daniel W., soldier, journalist, was Feb. 26, 1837, in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. He served as a union soldier in company K, tenth regiment Illinois infantry. He participated in fifteen engagements; and his dash and bravery became proverbial in the army. He carried an unextricable bullet in his lungs for twenty-three years; and finally died from its effects March 9, 1885, in Oakland,
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Cal.
Ballou, Eli, clergyman, journalist, was Dec. 1, 1808, in Leroy, N.Y. In 1840-70 he was the owner and editor of the universalist periodical entitled the Christian Repository. He died March 12, 1883, in New York. Ballou, Frederick Milton, manufacturer, legislator, was born June 21, 1818, in Cumberland, R.I. He was a successful woolen manufacturer; and represented the city of Baltimore in the Maryland state legislature in 1870 and 1883. He died in 1889 in Baltimore,
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Md. Ballou, Rosea, clergyman, founder, author, 30, 1771, in Richmond, N.H. He is justly regarded as the most distinguished Ballou in America; and two separate volumes have been published to commemorate his celebrity. He was the founder of universalism; and established the first newspaper devoted to this doctrine. He was the author of a treatise on Atonement; Notes on the Parables; and other religious works. He died June 7, 1852, in Boston, Mass.
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with which he remained for seven years. In 1850 he became treasurer and bank cashier
from
Smithfleld and Providence. He has been a member of the city council of Providence, R. I.; and president of the board of aldermen.
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of the Woonsocket institution for savings, the deposits of which institution rose to five million dollars under his sagacious and judicious management. He was" presidential elector in 1860; and a delegate from Rhode Island to the national republican convention in 1873. In 1875-81 he was a representative from Rhode Island to the forty-fourth, forty-fifth and forty-sixth congresses. He was the author of the Ballou
Genealogy, a work which reflects great honor on himself and his descendants. He died
May
9,
1900. in Woonsocket, R.I.
Ballou, Maturin Murray, journalist, publisher, author, was born April 14, 1820, in Boston, Mass.; and was a son of H. Ballou. He was the founder and editor of several periodicals in Boston which bore his name ; and in his later years was a traveler to all parts
of the world. He was the author of History of Cuba; Life of Hosea Ballou; Due West, or Round the World in Ten Months; Due South, or Cuba Past and Present; Due North: Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia; Under the Southern Cross: Travels in Aus-
New Zealand; Alaska: Eldorado; Aztec Land; The Story of Malta; The Pearl of India, a description of Ceylon; Equatorial America; and Foot-
tralia,
The
Tasmania and
New
prints of Travel. He died March 29, 1895, in Cairo, Egypt. Ballou, Moses, clergyman, author, was born March 24, 1811, in Monroe, Mass. He
