Maturin Murray Ballou

Maturin Murray Ballou (1820-1895) was a Boston journalist, publisher, and travel writer, the youngest child of the Universalist minister Hosea Ballou. He co-founded the illustrated weekly Gleason's Pictorial, later renamed Ballou's Pictorial, ran several other popular periodicals, and in 1872-1873 served as the first editor of the Boston Daily Globe. His Biography of Rev. Hosea Ballou (1852) is a life of his father, and in later years he published a long series of travel books. He died in Cairo, Egypt, in 1895.

The founder's life told by his youngest son — written and published within months of Hosea Ballou's death, over a year before Whittemore's documentary volumes began to appear. Maturin Murray Ballou was a professional writer (later the founding editor of the Boston Globe), and his biography is brisker and more intimate than the official lives: the patriarch at home, remembered by the child of his old age.

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Maturin Murray Ballou retells his father's life for young readers — a companion to his full 1852 biography, also in this collection, written while the memory of the great preacher was fresh. It shows how the denomination taught its children the story of its founder.

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