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Ballou, Latimer Whipple

financier, banker, legislator, 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, with which he remained for seven years. In 1850 he became treasurer and bank cashier of the Woonsocket Institution for Savings, the deposits of which institution rose to five million dollars under his sagacious and judicious management. He has always taken a deep interest in public affairs; was presidential elector in 1860; delegate from Rhode Island to the national republican convention in 1872; elected a representative in congress in 1874, receiving the re-election the two succeeding terms, and filled that office with distinction. He is the author of the Ballou Genealogy, a work which reflects great honor on himself and his descendants.