Ballou, Hosea Starr – Bangs, Francis C
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, 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.
Ballou, Maturin Murray
publisher, author, was born April 14, 1820, in Boston, Mass., and a son of H. Ballou, 2nd. He is the founder and editor of several periodicals in Boston which bore his name, and, in his later years, a traveler to all parts of the world. He is 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 Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, etc.; Alaska:
The New Eldorado; Aztec Land; The Story of Malta; The Pearl of India, a description of Ceylon; Equatorial America, a description of visits to the Lesser Antilles and to South American capitals; and Footprints of Travel.
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.
Bancroft, Aaron
clergyman, author, was born Nov. 10, 1755, in Reading, Pa. He was a unitarian clergyman of Worcester, Mass., in 1785-1839, and was prominent in the earlier days of the unitarian movement as a writer in its behalf. He was the author of Sermons on the Doctrines of the Gospel; and A Life of Washington. He died Aug. 19, 1839, in Worcester, Mass.
Bancroft, Edward
physician, author, was born Jan. 9, 1744, in Westfield, Mass. He was a physician who resided chiefly in London, where he was supposed to have been a spy of the English government during the American revolution. He was the author of Natural History of Guiana; Researches Concerning the Philosophy of Permanent Colors; Charles Wentworth: a Novel; and several political works. He died Sept. 8, 1820, in England.
Bancroft, Mrs. Florence Mai
poet. She is a successful writer of Lexington, Neb.; and the author of a number of meritorious poems.
Bancroft, George
historian, was born Oct. 3, 1800, in Worcester, Mass. He commenced his education at Exeter academy, N. H., and graduated at Cambridge university in 1817. In 1818 he visited Europe, studied at Gottingen and Bertraveled lin, and extensively. In 1823 he published a volume of poems; in translation of Heeren's Politics of Greece; and became a frequent cona tributor to the North American and other reviews. On his return from Europe he spent one year as a tutor at Harvard; and was at the head of the Round Hill school at Northampton. From 1838 to 1841 he was collector of the port of Boston, appointed by President Van Buren; in 1844 was an unsuccessful candidate for the governorship of Massachusetts; in 1845 was appointed secretary of the navy; and in 1846 was appointed minister to Great Britain, remaining there until 1849.
On his return settled in New York and became an active member of various learned societies. In 1844 he published the first volume of his History of the United States, which now contains twelve volumes; in 1855 published his Literary and Historical Miscellanies; in 1865, by invitation of congress, delivered, in the capitol, an oration on the death of Abraham Lincoln; and in 1867 was appointed minister to Prussia. He died in 1891.
Bancroft, Hubert Howe
publisher, author, was born May 5, 1832, in Granville, Ohio. Early in life he moved to San Francisco, Cal., and there opened the first book store on the Pacific coast. He subsequently added a publishing establishment, which has become the largest publishing house west of New York city. He has impressed himself upon the literature of the nineteenth century, by a colossal work entitled History of the Pacific States of North America, including Central America, Mexico, California, Oregon and British Columbia, in thirtynine volumes. He is also the author of The Native Races of the Pacific States, in five volumes; The Early American Chroniclers; Popular History of the Mexican People; Literary Industries, an autobiography; The Book of the Fair; and Wealth of Nations.
Bancroft, Lucius W
educator, clergyman, was born Aug. 27, 1827, in Worcester, Mass. In 1862 he was professor of divinity in Kenyon college, Gambier, Ohio; for five years professor in the divinity school of Philadelphia, Pa.; and has filled pastorates in the episcopal churches of South Brooklyn, N. Y.
Bancroft, William L
was born Aug. 12, 1825, in Martinsburg, N. Y. In 1859 he was a representative; in 1865 a senator of the Michigan state legislature, and was secretary of the state senate in 1849. He has been a democratic nominee for congress and for secretary of state. He was the first mayor of Port Huron, Mich., and has been postmaster of that city.
Bandelier, Adolph Francis Al- Phonse
archæologist, author, was born Aug. 6, 1840, in Switzerland. He is the author of The Art of War and Mode of Warfare; Tenure of Land and Inheritances of the Ancient Mexicans; Historical Introduction to Studies among the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico; Archæological Tour in Mexico in 1881; and The Delight Makers, a novel of Pueblo Indian Life.
Banes, Charles H
soldier, author, was born Oct. 24, 1831, in Philadelphia, Pa.
He served through the civil war, and attained the rank of lieutenant-colonel in 1864. He is the author of a volume entitled History of the Philadelphia Brigade.
Bangs, Francis C
actor, was born in October, 1837, in Virginia. His first appearance on the stage was in November, 1852, in the Old National theater, Washington, D. C.