Hosea Ballou
1771 – 1852
American

Christian minister. He helped found the Universalist Church, which in the twentieth century merged with the Unitarians. The doctrine of Universalism originally taught that everyone would be saved, not just an elect.

Contemporaries
1801–1877Brigham Young
1827–1915Ellen White
1732–1799George Washington
1811–1896Harriet Beecher Stowe
1818–1893Lucy Stone
1815–1902Elizabeth Stanton
1852–1916Charles Russell
1839–1937John D. Rockefeller
1839–1914Charles Peirce
1846–1911Carry Nation
1793–1880Lucretia Mott
1837–1913J. P. Morgan
1781–1849William Miller
1755–1835John Marshall
1736–1784Ann Lee
1807–1870Robert E. Lee
1819–1910Julia Howe
1848–1908Joel Harris
1805–1879Angelina Grimke
1792–1873Sarah Grimke
1839–1897Henry George
1805–1879William Garrison
1706–1790Benjamin Franklin
1821–1910Mary Baker Eddy
1837–1899Dwight Moody
1817–1895Frederick Douglass
1800–1891George Bancroft
1832–1899Horatio Alger
1838–1918Henry Adams