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Scanned from a collection of glass negatives X2012.3.3_Hezekiah Lord Hosmer_aka Judge Hosmer I have not (yet) been able to find out from our proceedings to which lodge Hosmer belonged. He is not mentioned in the necrologies for members, or for grand officers. I cannot (at this time) suss out why his photograph is amongst our grand lodge officers. Author, lawyer, judge, journalist Past Grand Secretary of Montana From Wikipedia: Hosmer was born into a prominent family. His grandfather Titus Hosmer signed the Articles of Confederation for Connecticut, his uncle Stephen Hosmer was Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court. His father, Hezekiah Lord Hosmer, was a U. S. Representative from New York who died six months before Hosmer's birth. Hosmer started studying law in Cleveland at the age of sixteeen. At 22 he moved west to the Maumee Valley of Ohio. From 1848 to 1854 he was the editor of the Toledo Blade newspaper. After serving as secretary to the Committee of Territories of the U. S. House of Representatives, Hosmer was appointed first Chief Justice of the Montana Territory Supreme Court in 1864 by President Abraham Lincoln, serving until 1868. He moved to San Francisco, California in 1872 and remained there until his death. Hosmer authored a number of works on various subjects: a history, Early History of the Maumee Valley (1858); an anti-slavery novel, Adela, the Octoroon (1860); and Bacon and Shakespeare in the Sonnets (1887). He was married four times; to Sarah E. Seward (died July 8, 1839), Jane Eliza Thompson (died March 4, 1848; their only child, Richard Alsop Hosmer, died April 16, 1848 aged less than six months), and Mary Daniels (Stower) b. July 8, 1818 in Abergavenny, Monmouth, Wales (sister of New York Supreme Court justice Charles Daniels,), married Sept. 12, 1849, with whom he had three children. His son John Allen Hosmer (1850-1907) self-published a travel narrative A Trip to the States, By Way of the Yellowstone and Missouri in Virginia City in 1867; it was the first such book published in the Montana Territory. Hosmer's wife Mary died April 30, 1858 and is buried in Collingwood cemetery in Toledo, Ohio; in 1864 he married (August 18, 1864 in Philadelphia) his fourth wife, Sallie Cotney (marriage license has it hand-written as Cottney), b. May 22, 1842, who survived him
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