Maturin M. Ballou

Maturin Murray Ballou (1820–1895) was an American publisher, editor and author, the son of the Universalist minister Hosea Ballou. Born in Boston, he wrote adventure novels under the pen name Lieutenant Murray and founded or edited a series of illustrated papers, including Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion and Ballou's Pictorial. In 1872 he became the first editor of The Boston Globe. In later life he traveled the world and wrote many travel books, on Cuba, Mexico, Alaska and the South Seas, as well as anthologies of quotations such as Treasury of Thought and Pearls of Thought.