Hosea Faxon Ballou. Papers, 1835-1871.

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Hosea Faxon Ballou. Papers, 1835-1871.

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Sermons, 1835-1871 and undated; other papers, including fragments of essays/sermons, poems, funeral addresses, and clippings.

1.5 c.f.

Harvard University, Divinity School Library

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Harvard University, Divinity School Library

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Ballou, Hosea Faxon, 1799-1881.

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Hosea Faxon Ballou (1799-1881) was born in Dana, Massachusetts. He married in 1817 and he and his wife Mary had ten children. Ballou began theological studies under the Rev. Benjamin Whittemore in 1832 and was ordained in Boston in 1833. For nearly fifty years he was a man of enormous religious influence in southern Vermont. In addition to his pastoral duties, he served as the Whitingham, Vermont, town clerk for seventeen years; was twice elected to the Vermont State Constitutional Convention; s...