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BALLOU.BALTES. on the Atonement" (1806); and an "Examination of the Doctrine of a Future Retribution" (1846); See "Biography of Hosea Ballou" by his son Maturin M. Ballou (1852); and "Hosea Ballou; a Marvellous Life Story" by Oscar F. Safford, D. D. (1889). He died in Boston, June 7, 1852. BALLOU, Hosea, 2d, clergyman, was born at Guilford, Vt., Oct. 18, 1796, son of Asahel and Martha (Starr) Ballou. He was educated at the schools of Halifax, Vt., whither his parents removed about 1797, and later studied under a tutor, Rev. Mr. Wood, but owing to his father's views on religious education, he did not receive a college training. He studied for the Universalist ministry under his grand-uncle, Hosea Ballou, at Portsmouth. N. H., and in 1815 assumed pastoral charge of a church in Stafford, Conn. In 1821 he was appointed pastor of the Universalist church at Roxbury, Mass., and was associated with his grand-uncle and Thomas Starr King in the editorship of the Universalist Magazine, which later became the Trumpet, and of the Universalist Expositor, later known as the Universalist Quarterly, which was founded July 1, 1830, and long exerted a powerful influence in the Universalist denomination. In 1852 he resigned his pastorate at Roxbury, and accepted an invitation to serve the church at Medford, Mass. In 1853 he was elected first president of Tufts college, an institution which he had been largely instrumental in founding, and the early prosperity of which was mainly due to his able administration. In 1843 he succeeded Dr. Channing as overseer of Harvard college. In 1843 Harvard conferred upon him the degree of A. M., and in 1845 that of D. D. His nephew, Hosea Starr Ballou, published his biography in 1896. Mr. Ballou published, "The Ancient History of Universalism from the Time of the Apostolic Fathers to the Reformation" (1829). A second edition of this work was published in 1842. In 1833 he edited and published Sismondi's "History of the Crusades." He died at College Hill, Somerville, Mass., May 27, 1861. BALLOU, Latimer Whipple, representative, was born in Cumberland, R.I., March 1, 1812; son of Levi and Hepsa (Metcalf ) Ballou; grandson of Levi and Comfort (Thompson) Ballou, and a descendant of Mathurin Bellews, Providence, R.I., 1646. He learned the printing business at the University Press, Cambridge, Mass., and helped to establish the Cambridge Press in 1835, where he remained until 1842, when he engaged in mercantile pursuits at Woonsocket. R. I. He was cashier of the Woonsocket Falls bank and treasurer of the Woonsocket institute for savings, 1850-’99. He was presidential elector in 1860; a delegate to the Republican national convention in 1872, and a Republican representative from the 2d Rhode Island district in the 44th, 45th and 46th congresses, 1875-'81. He was treasurer and president of Dean academy, Franklin, Mass. He died May 9, 1900. BALLOU, Mathurin Murray, journalist, was born in Boston, April 14, 1820; son of Hosea and Ruth (Washburne) Ballou. He was graduated at the Boston high school; served as a clerk in the post-office for five years, and in the U. S. treasury department for another five years. He became a contributor to the Olive Branch in 1838: established and edited for thirteen years Gleason's Pictorial, the first illustrated paper issued in America, and also edited Ballon’s Monthly. He was editor-in-chief of the Boston Globe for several years: editor and proprietor of Ballou’s Pictorial; The Flag of Our Union and the Boston Sunday Budget. He traveled in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Polar regions. He is the author of "Due West, or Round the World in Ten Months: "Due South, or Cuba, Past and Present"; "Under the Southern Cross"; "Aztec Land"; "The New Eldorado, a Summer Trip to Alaska": "Footprints of Travel"; "Equatorial America" and "Treasury of Thought," an encyclopedia of quotations from ancient and modern authors. He died in Egypt, March 27, 1895. BALLOU, Moses, clergyman, was born at Monroe, Mass., March 24, 1811, grandson of Hosea Ballou. He was graduated from the academy at Brattleboro, Vt., and later studied theology. Like several of his ancestors he adopted the Universalist belief, and entered the ministry in 1835. He preached at Portsmouth. N. H., and then removed to Connecticut, where he held pastorates in New Haven and Hartford. His subsequent charges were in New York and Philadelphia and Atco, N. J., and his work throughout his ministry was conscientious and successful. He is the author of "A Memoir of the Rev. Merritt Sanford" (1850); and of a review of "The Conflict of Ages," by Dr. Edward Beecher, entitled "The Divine Character Vindicated" (1854). He died in Atco, N. J., May 19, 1879. BALTES, Peter Joseph, R. C. bishop, born at Enshein, Rhenish Bavaria, April 7, 1827. He studied at the college of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Mass., passed from thence to St. Ignatius college, Chicago, and completed his education by a course at Laval university, Montreal. In 1853 he received his ordination as a priest, and after seventeen years of faithful service in that capacity, was consecrated bishop of Alton in 1870. He wrote and published, in 1875, a book of "Pastoral Instruction," of which a third and enlarged edition was printed in 1880. He founded the Ecclesiastical college of the sacred heart at Ruma, Ill., and endowed his diocese with many schools and charitable institutions. He died at Alton, Ill., Feb. 15, 1886.