John Wesley Hillman

John Wesley Hillman (March 29, 1832 – March 19, 1915) was an American prospector during the California Gold Rush and explorer who was among the first European Americans to see Crater Lake in the U.S. state of Oregon.

On June 12, 1853, John Wesley Hillman was reportedly the first European American to see what he named "Deep Blue Lake" in Oregon.

[1] Hillman shattered a knee in 1855 during the Rogue River Wars and returned east a few years later, settling to a farming life in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

His second marriage, in Orleans parish on July 25, 1875, was to Rosalie Frye (October 11, 1854 – May 4, 1928).

By his second marriage he had four recorded children of whom two - one son and one daughter - survived to adulthood.