Overview
Sermons and other papers of Vermont pastor and legistlator Hosea Faxon Ballou.
Dates
- Creation: 1835-1871.
Extent
5 boxesThis collection consists of sermons by Hosea Ballou. They are arranged chronologically with undated sermons at the end. The collection also contains other papers, including fragments of essays/sermons, poems, funeral addresses, and clippings.
Biographical / Historical
Hosea Faxon Ballou (1799-1881) was born in Dana, Massachusetts. He married in 1817 and he and his wife Mary had ten children. Ballou began theological studies under the Rev. Benjamin Whittemore in 1832 and was ordained in Boston in 1833. For nearly fifty years he was a man of enormous religious influence in southern Vermont. In addition to his pastoral duties, he served as the Whitingham, Vermont, town clerk for seventeen years; was twice elected to the Vermont State Constitutional Convention; served in the Vermont State Legislature, and was president of the Wilmington (Vt.) Savings Bank for seven years. He died in Wilmington, Vermont.
Arrangement
Organized into the following series:
- Series I. Dated sermons
- Series II. Undated sermons
- Series III. Other papers
Acquisition Information
Gift of the Universalist Historical Society, 1976.
- Title
- Hosea Faxon Ballou papers, ca. 1835-1871: A Finding Aid.
- Author
- Andover-Harvard Theological Library
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- div00351
Repository Details
Part of the Harvard Divinity School Library, Harvard University Repository
Special Collections at Harvard Divinity School Library preserves and makes accessible primary source materials documenting the history of religion and theology, with particular historical emphasis on American liberal religious traditions. Though the historical strengths of the collections have been in the field of Christianity, other religious traditions are increasingly reflected, in step with Harvard Divinity School's evolving focus on global religious studies. Known as Andover-Harvard Theological Library since 1911, it was renamed the Harvard Divinity School Library in 2021.
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