Hosea Ballou II, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetHosea Ballou II
American academic administrator and minister
Date of Birth: 18-Oct-1796
Place of Birth: Guilford, Vermont, United States
Date of Death: 27-May-1861
Profession: academic
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Hosea Ballou II
- Hosea Ballou II (October 18, 1796 – May 27, 1861) was an American Universalist minister and the first president of Tufts University from 1853 to 1861.
- Ballou was named after his uncle and went by the name "Hosea Ballou 2d.
- " Publishers, friends, editors, Tufts University staff, and others generally followed this example.
- The title of this Wikipedia article reflects the more recent generational suffix usage of the Roman numeral II for those named for an uncle.
- Note also that Ballou used the ordinal number suffix "2d" rather than "2nd."
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