Oscar F. Safford

Oscar Fitzalan Safford (1837-1907) was an American Universalist clergyman and author who held the degree of Doctor of Divinity. He is chiefly remembered for Hosea Ballou: A Marvellous Life-Story (1888), a popular biography of the Universalist theologian Hosea Ballou issued by the Universalist Publishing House in Boston, which went through several editions and long served as a standard denominational account of Ballou's life.

A warm popular biography of the greatest figure of American Universalism, written for the centennial generation by one of his successors in the ministry. Safford follows Ballou from his boyhood as a Calvinist farm-boy in Richmond, New Hampshire, through his conversion to universalism, his itinerant preaching, the writing of the Treatise on Atonement, and his long pastorate at Boston's Second Universalist Society, drawing on reminiscences of those who knew him.

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