Hezekiah Lord Hosmer II (born Hudson, New York, December 10, 1814; died San Francisco, California, October 31, 1893) was a lawyer, judge, journalist, and author.
[1][2] He then moved to San Francisco, California, where he had obtained a position in the Customs House, and remained there until his death.
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) born July 8, 1818, in Abergavenny, Monmouth, Wales (sister of New York Supreme Court Justice Charles Daniels[6][7]), married September 12, 1849, with whom he had three children.
[8][9] 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.
In August 1864, in Philadelphia, he married his fourth wife, Sallie Cotney (marriage license has it hand-written as Cottney), born May 22, 1842, who survived him.