Biography of Rev. Hosea Ballou

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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