Hosea Ballou
American
Christian minister. He helped found the Universalist Church, which in the twentieth century merged with the Unitarians. The doctrine of Universalism originally taught that everyone would be saved, not just an elect.
Individuals who have had a major impact on the History of Values including our picks for the Top 100
Contemporaries
| 1801–1877 | Brigham Young |
| 1827–1915 | Ellen White |
| 1732–1799 | George Washington |
| 1811–1896 | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| 1818–1893 | Lucy Stone |
| 1815–1902 | Elizabeth Stanton |
| 1852–1916 | Charles Russell |
| 1839–1937 | John D. Rockefeller |
| 1839–1914 | Charles Peirce |
| 1846–1911 | Carry Nation |
| 1793–1880 | Lucretia Mott |
| 1837–1913 | J. P. Morgan |
| 1781–1849 | William Miller |
| 1755–1835 | John Marshall |
| 1736–1784 | Ann Lee |
| 1807–1870 | Robert E. Lee |
| 1819–1910 | Julia Howe |
| 1848–1908 | Joel Harris |
| 1805–1879 | Angelina Grimke |
| 1792–1873 | Sarah Grimke |
| 1839–1897 | Henry George |
| 1805–1879 | William Garrison |
| 1706–1790 | Benjamin Franklin |
| 1821–1910 | Mary Baker Eddy |
| 1837–1899 | Dwight Moody |
| 1817–1895 | Frederick Douglass |
| 1800–1891 | George Bancroft |
| 1832–1899 | Horatio Alger |
| 1838–1918 | Henry Adams |
