Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Ballou, Maturin Murray

​BALLOU, MATURIN MURRAY, an American journalist, born in Boston, April 14, 1820. Besides editing “Ballou's Pictorial,” “Ballou's Monthly,” etc., he wrote “History of Cuba” (1854); “Biography of Hosea Ballou,” “Due West,” “Due South” (1885); “Under the Southern Cross,” “Footprints of Travel,” etc. In 1872 he became one of the founders and the editor-in-chief of the Boston “Globe.” He died in Cairo, Egypt, March 27, 1895.

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