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Ballou, Hosea – Bampfield, Samuel Jones

Ballou, Hosea

clergyman, 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

farmer, merchant, genealogist, was born July 12, 1827, in Fenner, N. Y. He is a successful business man, and aided greatly in collecting historical data for the genealogy of the Ballou family.

Ballou, Hosea Starr

banker, was born Feb. 9, 1857, in North Orange, Mass.

He graduated from the Harvard' university and the university of Berlin, and is a successful financier and banker of Boston, Mass.

Ballou, Moses

clergyman, author, was born March 24, 1811, in Monroe, Mass.

He was a nephew of H. Ballou, 1st, and, like him, a universalist clergyman. He was the author of The Divine Character Vindicated. He died May 19, 1879, in Atco, N. J.

Ballou, Nahum Enon

physician, scientist, author, was born Sept. 16, 1822, in Plymouth, N. Y. He has been a student of meteorology for nearly half a century, and is the author of a number of works on that subject. Since 1863 he has been United States pension surgeon, being now one of the oldest in the service.

Ballou, Oren Aldrich

manufacturer, legislator, was born Aug. 22, 1813, in Cumberland, R. I. He was a successful manufacturer and represented the city of Providence in the state legislature in 1867-78. He died Feb. 21, 1877. was

Ballou, Phineas Dodge

legislator, was born March 3, 1823, in Starksborough, Vt. For two terms he mayor of Burlington, Vt., and served as a member in the Vermont state legislature.

He died Jan. 16, 1877, in Deadwood, N. D.

Ballou, Sullivan

soldier, lawyer, state legislator, was born March 28, 1827, in Smithfield, R. I. He was a successful lawyer; became a member of the Rhode Island house of representatives, and was unanimously chosen speaker. He was one of the most prominent men of his native state; and lost his life at the disastrous battle of Bull Run.

Balsley, Alfred H

journalist, was born Dec. 15, 1828, in Pittsburg, Pa.

In 1853 he purchased the Grand River Record; in 1876 purchased the Jeffersonian; and was also the proprietor of the Attica Journal and the Carey Times of Ohio.

Baltes, Peter Joseph

clergyman, author, was born April 7, 1827, in Bavaria. He studied at the college of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Mass., at St. Ignatius college, Chicago, and at Lavalle university, Montreal, and was ordained priest in 1853, and consecrated bishop of Alton in 1870. He was the author of Pastoral Instruction. He died Feb. 15, 1886, in Alton, Ill.

Baltzer, Herman R

merchant, was born Feb. 16, 1826, in Germany. He has been Russian vice-consul in New York city, and was a member of a European banking house. Mr. Baltzer is a director of the Germania Life Insurance company, and vice-president of the Colorado Central Consolidated Mining company of New York city.

Bampfield, Samuel Jones

lawyer, journalist, legislator, was born Dec. 5, 1849, in Charleston, S. C. He received his education at the Lincoln university of Chester county, Pa. In 1874 he was admitted to the bar by the supreme court; was a member of the state legislature of South Carolina in 1874-76; and clerk of the circuit court during 1876-96. In 1897 he was appointed postmaster of Beaufort, S. C.; and since 1888 has been the editor and proprietor of The New South.