Addie L. Ballou
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Addie L. Ballou
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| Born |
Adeline Lucia Hart April 29, 1838 Chagrin Falls, Ohio |
| Died | August 10, 1916 (aged 79) San Francisco |
| Resting place | Igo, California |
| Occupation | Poet, lecturer, social reformer, artist |
| Known for | Social Reform, Feminism, Prison Reform, Journalism, poetry, Public speaking, Notary Public, Painted Portraits |
| Notable work | Driftwood, The Padre's Dream |
| Spouse(s) | Albert Darius Ballou (m. 1854, div. 1869) |
| Children | Edward Lull Ballou, Miner Hart Ballou, Myron Hamilton Ballou, Clarence Jefferson Ballou, and Evangeline Ellen Ballou-Happersberger |
| Parent(s) | Alexander Hamilton Hart and Mary "Polly" Eldridge |
Addie Lucia Ballou (April 29, 1838 – August 10, 1916) was an American suffragist, poet, artist, author, and lecturer.
Ballou took an active part in the Spiritualist movement as a writer and lecturer. Her reform and philanthropy interests included prisons, the unfortunates, and fallen women. She supported Victoria Woodhull in her campaign for President of the United States in 1872.
Later, as a pioneer of California, Ballou continued her Spiritualist writing and lecturing, suffrage work, and campaigning for political change for women. She became the second female notary public in that state in 1891.
She also developed her artistic talents while studying painting at the San Francisco School of Design. In 1897 she was commissioned to paint the official portrait of the 18th governor of California, Henry Markham.
Addie Ballou was born in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, on April 29, 1838, to Alexander Hamilton and Mary "Polly" (Eldredge) Hart, early settlers of that town. Her strictly orthodox parents were from New York, where they were married in 1827, and where three of Addie's older siblings were born. After removing to Ohio in the early 1830s, Addie was the fifth of eight children born to Alexander and Polly. However, after the death of Addie's mother in 1846, Alexander remarried three times, fathering six more children.
The early death of her mother and the removal of her family to the frontier in Wisconsin in 1849 deprived her of the opportunity of more than a year or two of a common school education.
By the late 1840s, the Hart family had moved to the "Fox Cities" area in the Eastern part of Wisconsin, settling along the northeastern tip of Lake Winnebago. In 1853 Alexander Hart was the elected Chairman of the newly formed town of Lima (now Harrison) in Calumet County, Wisconsin. It was here that Addie met her future husband, Albert Darius Ballou, Lima's town clerk. Albert was also the great-grandnephew of Hosea Ballou and cousin of both Hosea Ballou II and Maturin Murray Ballou.
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