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Author: History of Will County, Illinois; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.

George R. HOSMER, M. D., physician and surgeon, Joliet; is the oldest son of W. H. C. HOSMER, 
the poet, author and lecturer; he traces his ancestry to a period prior to the Revolutionary 
war; at the battle of Concord the first two who fell by a volley of British musketry, were 
Capt. Davis and Abner HOSMER, the latter of whom was a lineal ancestor of the subject of this 
sketch; the Doctor's great-grandfather, Dr. Timothy HOSMER, was surgeon of the Sixth 
Continental Regiment in the war of the Revolution, and afterwards a prominent pioneer in 
the settlement of the Holland Purchase, in Western New York; his father, George HOSMER, was 
an aide-de-camp of General SCHUYLER in the war of 1812; a prominent lawyer, member of the 
State Legislature, and for twenty-one years District Attorney of Livingston Co., N. Y.; Miss 
Harriet HOSMER, the famous sculptress, is also a cousin. Dr. HOSMER was born in Avon, 
Livingston Co., N. Y., Aug. 23, 1839; he thoroughly prepared for college at the Owego 
Academy, where he spent nine years; he then entered the University of New York, remaining 
two years in the literary department, after which he pursued a three-years course in the 
medical department of the same institution, graduating in 1865; he practiced medicine one 
year in Ontario Co., N. Y., removing thence to New Baltimore, Macomb Co., Mich., where he 
remained until his removal to Joliet in 1870. He was married in 1866, to Miss Ann BELFORD, 
of Boston, and has one son - George B. Dr. HOSMER is a regular physician, but clings to no 
dogma, seizing upon any remedy from whatever source, which will accomplish his object, the 
relief of the patient and the cure of the disease; he takes an active interest in educational 
matters, and is now on his second term as a member of the Board of School Inspectors of Joliet.