Biography: Oliver Ballou :Alexandria, Grafton Co, New Hampshire

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From Gazetteer of Grafton County, NH 1709-1886 -Alexandria
Compiled & published by Hamilton Child 1886

Oliver Ballou, son of Oliver, moved to Enfield from Providence, R. I.,
and was one of the early settlers of that town. He married for his
second wife Mary Simons of Alexandria, and had born to him twelve
children, eleven of whom grew to maturity. His son Horace married Mary,
daughter of Caleb and Louis (Phelps) Simons, and has had born to him
four children, one of whom is now living and resides at Spirit Lake,
Iowa. Mr. Ballou was the first permanent merchant in Alexandria, and
remained in that business forty years. He has been justice of the peace
twenty years, postmaster, twenty years, and town clerk, one year. He is
now retired from business and resides in this town, on road 29. Hosea,
one of the twelve children of Oliver, married Cynthia P., daughter of
Joseph and Sarah (Parsons) Sanburn, and reared seven children, three of
whom are living, namely, Charlotte A., Ellen Burpee, of Bristol, and
Luisde F. The latter served three years in the late war, enlisting in
Co. C. 12th N. H. Vols., and was honorably discharged. He resides in
this town with his mother.