“ Ballou was for several years the president of the community, which was run on the plan that all should have an equal voice as to the use of property, in spite of the fact that there was individual holding of property. ”

“ After George Draper’s death the control of the mills passed to his sons. These included General William Franklin Draper (1842–1910) , a Republican representative in Congress in 1892–1897 and U.S. ambassador to Italy in 1897–1900, and Eben Sumner Draper (b. 1858) , lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts in 1906-1908 and governor in 1909–1911. ”

“ Adin Ballou (1803–1890) , a distant relative of Hosea Ballou; [1] he left, in succession, the ministry of the Christian Connexion (1823) and that of the Universalist Church (1831) , because of his restorationist views. In 1831 he became pastor of an independent church in Mendon. An ardent exponent of temperance, the anti-slavery movement, woman’s rights, the peace cause and Christian non-resistance (even through the Civil War) , and of “Practical Christian Socialism,” it was in the interests of the last cause that he founded Hopedale, or “Fraternal Community No. ”