Windsor

BALLOU, Henry Lincoln

Encyclopedia of Vermont Biography: A Series of Authentic Biographical 
Sketches of the Representative Men of Vermont and Sons of Vermont in Other 
States. Dodge. Burlington, Ullery, 1912, p 108

Henry Lincoln BALLOU, Chester [Windsor County, Vermont], clergyman, was born 
22 September 1865, son of William Sabin and Esther (ANDREWS) BALLOU. 
Educated at Vermont Academy, Amherst College, and Hartford Theological 
Seminary. Before entering Vermont Academy worked on a cattle ranch in 
Wyoming, 1882; principal, Pleasant Hill Academy at Pleasant Hill [Cumberland 
County], Tennessee, 1890-1892; superintendent of Chester schools seven years; 
trustee of Whiting Free Library. Republican; represented Chester in the 
Legislature, 1908. Congregationalist. Ordained 17 September 1895 at 
Chester, and pastor of the church there since then; delegate to the National 
Council of Congregational Churches at Portland, Oregon, 1898, also council at 
Boston, Massachusetts, 1910; corporate member of American Board of 
commissioners for Foreign Missions.

In 1891 Henry Lincoln BALLOU married [Miss?] Carrie May HUBBARD of Saxtons 
River [Windham County, Vermont]. They have three sons: Earle Hoit (Yale, 
1912), Paul Holton, and Donald Henry. Mr. BALLOU is a member of the Vermont 
Historical Society; Sons of the American Revolution; Delta Upsilon 
fraternity; grand master of the Grand Lodge of Vermont, Free & Accepted 
Masons; assistant grand prior of the Supreme Council of the thirty-third and 
last degree, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly