a Universalist minister, grand-nephew of Hosea Ballou, Sr., the Universalist patriarchwas born at Halifax,Vt., Oct. 18, 1796. In 1815 he became pastor at Stafford, Conn., and subsequently at Roxbury and Medford, Mass. In 1853 he became president of Tufts College, Somerville, Mass., and entered upon his duties in 1855. In 1822 he became one of the editors of the Universalist Magazine (now The Trumpet), and in 1832 assisted his uncle in establishing the Universalist Expositor (subsequently the Universalist Quarterly). He published, The Ancient History of Universalism (1829): — an edition of Sismondi's History of the Crusades (1833): — and a Collection of Psalms and Hymns for the Use of Universalist Societies and Families (1837). He died at Somerville, May 27, 1861.