Background
Ballou, Hosea was born on April 30, 1771 in Richmond, New Hampshire, United States. Son of Maturin and Lydia (Harris) Ballou.
Ballou, Hosea was born on April 30, 1771 in Richmond, New Hampshire, United States. Son of Maturin and Lydia (Harris) Ballou.
Attended academic, Richmond, N.H., 1790.
Became member Universalist Church, 1791. Taught school, Rhode Island, also Massachusetts, 1791-1794. Ordained to ministry Universalist Church, 1794.
Circuit preacher based from Dana, Massachusetts, 1796-1803, Barnard, Vermont, 1803-1809. Pastor in Portsmouth, N.H., 1809-1815. Founder Gospel Visitant (1st Universalist quarterly), Portsmouth, 1811.
Pastor in Salem, Massachusetts, 1815-1818, 2d Universalist Church, Boston, 1818-1852. Editor Universalist Magazine, 1819-1828, Universalist Expositor, 1830-1852. Popular exponent of developing Unitarian theology as distinct from orthodox Calvinism.
Author: Treatise on the Atonement, 1805. Examination of the Doctrine of Future Retribution, 1834.
Member Universalist Ch.
Married Ruth Washburn, September 11, 1796, 1 son, Maturin.