Patty Barrett

Patty married Cyrus Hosmer on 30 Aug 1792. Cyrus (son of Joseph Hosmer and Lucy Barnes) was born on 28 Feb 1765 in Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America; died on 15 Mar 1818 in Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Education: 1826; Harvard, A. B.
• Occupation: Between 1830 and 1836; Pastor-First Congregational (Unitarian) Church of Northfield,
• Occupation: Between 1836 and 1866; Pastor-Church of Our Father, Buffalo, New York
• Occupation: 1862; Non-resident professor of pastoral care, Meadville Theological School,
• Occupation: Between 1866 and 1873; President of Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio
• Occupation: Between 1873 and 1879; Pastor-Channing Religious Society, Newton, Masschusetts

Notes:

George Hosmer published "Progressive Lessons for Sunday Schools" (5th ed., 1861), and many sermons and addresses. [Source: Ancestry Reference Library, 1998 edition, Ancestry Inc., Orem Utah; "The 20th Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans", Vol. 5, pg. 354]

HOSMER, George Washington, educator, b. in Canton, Mass., in 1804; d. there, 5 July, 1881. He was graduated at Harvard in 1826, and at the divinity-school there in 1830. He was pastor of the Unitarian church in Northfield, Mass., the next two years and a half, and from 1835 was pastor in Buffalo, N. Y.., till his election to the presidency of Antioch college, Yellow Springs, Ohio, in 1862. While discharging these duties he was also non-resident professor of divinity in the Unitarian theological school at Meadville, Pa. Resigning the presidency of Antioch in 1872, he continued the next year to occupy the chair of history and ethics there. From 1873 till 1879 he was pastor of the Channing religious society of Boston, Mass. Dr. Hosmer was one of the most noted preachers in the Unitarian church of his day. — His son, James Kendall, author, b. in Northfield, Mass., 29 Jan., 1834, was graduated at Harvard in 1855. During the civil war he served in the 52d regiment of Massachusetts volunteers. He was professor in Antioch college in 1866-'72, in 1872-'4 occupied the chair of English and German literature in the University of Missouri, and in 1874 was elected to a similar professorship in Washington university, St. Louis, Mo., where he now (1887) resides. He has published “The Color-Guard” (Boston, 1864); “The Thinking Bayonet” (1865); “A Short History of German Literature” (St. Louis, 1879); “Life of Samuel Adams” (“American Statesmen” series, Boston, 1885); and “Story of the Jews” (“Story of the Nations” series, New York, 1886). [Source: Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography]

Family/Spouse: Hannah Poor Kendall. Hannah and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Millicent married Jacob B. Farmer on 16 Sep 1828 in Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. Jacob was born on 30 Oct 1801 in Billerica, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Education: Saint Louis, Saint Louis County, Missouri, United States; L.L. D.; Address:
  Washington University
• Misc: was elected member & Vice President of American Library Association
• Education: 1855; A B.
• Occupation: Between 1860 and 1866; Minister-Deerfield, Masschusetts
• Military: Between 1862 and 1863; Civil War-52nd Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, Company D, Private
• Military: 1 Oct 1862; Promoted to Corporal
• Occupation: Between 1866 and 1872, Yellow Springs, Greene County, Ohio, United States; Professor; Address:
  Antioch College
• Occupation: Between 1872 and 1874; Professor of English & history at University of State of MO.
• Occupation: Between 1874 and 1892, Saint Joseph, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States; Professor of English & German literature at Washington University, St.; Address:
  Washington University
• Occupation: 1892; Librarian at Minneapolis Public Library

Notes:

Hosmer, James Kendall, librarian Minneapolis Public Library since 1892; b. Northfield, Mass., Jan. 29, 1834; grad. Harvard, 1855 (A. M.; Ph. D., Univ. of Mo.; LL. D., Washington Univ., St. Louis); m., 1st, 1863, Eliza A. Cutler, Deerfield, Mass.; 2d, 1878, Jenny P. Garland, St. Louis. Unitarian pastor Deerfield, Mass., 1860-6; served in Civil war as private (declining staff appointment) in 52d Mass. vols., 19th army corps; was, after war, prof. in Antioch Coll., in Univ. of Mo., and porf. English and German literature, Washington Univ., St. Louis, 1874-92. Author: The Color Guard; The Thinking Bayonet; Short History of German Literature; Lives of Samuel Adams, Governot Thomas Hutchinson, and Sir Henry Vane; Short History of Anglo-Saxon Freedom; The Story of the Jews; How Thankful was Bewitched. Address: Minneapolis. Minn. [Source: Who's Who in America, pg. 351]

James Hosmer's published works include: "Color Guard" (1864); "Thinking Bayonet" (1865); "Short History of German Literature"(1878); "Samuel Adams" (1885); "Story of the Jews" (1885); "Life of Young Sir Henry Vane" (1888); "Short History of Anglo-Saxon Freedom" (1890); "How Thankful was Bewitched" (1894); "Life of Thomas Hutchinson" (1896), and numerous magazine and newspaper articles. [Source: Ancestry Reference Library, 1998 edition, Ancestry Inc., Orem Utah; "The 20th Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans", Vol. 5, pg. 354-355]

James married Eliza Adelaide Cutler on 15 Oct 1863 in Deerfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States. Eliza died in 1877. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

James married Jenny P. Garland on 27 Nov 1878 in Saint Louis, Saint Clair County, Missouri, United States. Jenny and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]