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Edward Ballard
1804–1870
A 19th-century Episcopal clergyman and local historian, he wrote about early church life in Maine and helped preserve the story of the Popham Colony. His work connects religious history with some of New England’s earliest colonial memories.
1 Audiobook
The Popham Colony : a discussion of its historical claims, with a bibliography of the subject
by William Frederick Poole, Edward Ballard, Frederic Kidder
About the author
Edward Ballard was an American Episcopal clergyman, historian, and author active in Maine in the mid-1800s. Library and archival records identify him as born in 1804 and deceased in 1870, and he is closely associated with St. Paul’s Church in Brunswick, where he served as rector.
He is best known for The Early History of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in the Diocese of Maine (1859), a work that reflects both his religious vocation and his interest in documenting regional history. He also appears as the editor of the Memorial Volume of the Popham Celebration, August 29, 1862, linking him to the Maine Historical Society and to efforts to preserve the memory of one of the earliest English settlements in New England.
A surviving portrait and later historical notes describe him as a respected and scholarly figure in Brunswick. His writing remains useful for readers interested in Maine’s church history, local identity, and the way 19th-century writers helped shape public memory of the colonial past.