Obed Francis Strickland (April 3, 1833 – June 28, 1887)[2] was a justice of the Supreme Court of the Utah Territory from 1869 to 1873.
Born in Dansville, New York, Strickland was a Freemason who moved to the Montana Territory with a promise of wealth from mining.
1 in Salt Lake City with Reuben H. Robertson, whom he had worked with in Montana previously.
[6] Strickland practiced law as early as 1865 in Madison County, Montana, where he served as a probate judge and attorney.
[10] He left Utah in 1882, and died suddenly from heart disease in St. Johns, Michigan, at the age of 54.