Individual Details

Born: 67 Boylston Street, Malden, Massachusetts

Education: Gates Lane Grammar School, Worcester, Massachusetts (completed 19 June 1908)

Occupations: sold eggs and raised bees as a child; worked at the Worcester, Massachusetts Market as a bookkeeper. For a short time perhaps in 1916 he owned (with J. Haid) the Hosmer-Haid Company, Inc., Massachusetts distributors of Huffman Trucks at 757 Boyleston St., Boston, Massachusetts. Helped to found in January 1917 and on 5 June 1917 was a miner's agent for the William E. Marks Coal Co., 616 Park Bldg., Worcester, Massachusetts. U.S. Navy aviation service in world war I (February 1918 to June 1919), storekeeper. He and Deloscia moved to New York City shortly after their marriage, then back to Elkhart. Elkhart, Indiana. Auditor for Elkhart, Indiana branch of Calumet Gas and Electric Co. 1923 to Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana to sell automobiles. Then back to Elkhart. Kalamazoo, Michigan and then Cleveland, Ohio: Bookeeper and branch manager for Associates Investments. Then he had the Indiana territory for Commercial Investment Trust. Indianapolis, Indiana: Owned Hosmer Stokol Corp. distributership for coal stokers, 819 Massachusetts Ave., then sold parts. Owned Hosmer Products Corporation, sold gas and oil furnaces. Retired in 1960.

Church: Methodist, Trowbridge M. E. Church, Worcester, Massachusetts; North Methodist Church, Indianapolis, Indiana

Residences: From Thanksgiving 1898 to Thanksgiving 1915 lived at 1 Gates Lane, Worcester, Massachusetts and later (including on 5 June 1917, the time of his World War I draft registration) 3 Stafford Street, Worcester, Massachusetts; in 1919 lived 39 Kingsbury St., Worcester; for a short time (perhaps around 1916) lived in Boston, Massachusetts; 1917 to Elkhart, Elkhart, Indiana, 1920: New York City, then returned to Elkhart, Indiana. 1923 Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana (lived in an apartment at the southwest corner of 34th and N. Meridian St., Indianapolis; Returned to Elkhart by 1924 (728 McDonald St. and 1039 South Third St.), then 1926 to Kalamazoo, Michigan (2325 Crane Ave.) where he worked for Associates Investments, then to Lakewood, Cuyahoga, Ohio (1209 Warren Rd. and 1264 Warren Rd.). To Indianapolis, Indiana 1 November 1935. 3656 North Delaware, Indianapolis, Indiana.

Offices: Chairman of Elkhart County, Indiana GOP, city Republican chairman, Elkhart, Elkhart, Indiana in 1925. (Elkhart Truth, 17 January 1925)

Burial: Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana

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Birth	23 Apr 1894	Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts
Census	1 Jun 1900	Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts
Census	Apr 1910	Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts
Occupation	Apr 1910	bookkeeper - Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts
Residence	5 Jun 1917	Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts
Marriage	27 Nov 1919	Elkhart, Elkhart, Indiana - Deloscia Ruth Longacher
Residence	1927	Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Occupation	1927	Branch Manager for a finance company - Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Residence	1930	Lakewood, Cuyahoga, Ohio
Census	1930	Lakewood, Cuyahoga, Ohio
Occupation	1930	Branch Manager, Auto Finance Company
Census	1 Apr 1940	Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana
Marriage	26 Jan 1946	Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana - Stella Lucile (Charman) (Gray) Frazee
Death	8 Jun 1976	Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana
Burial	11 Jun 1976	Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana
Baptism		Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts

Spouse	Deloscia Ruth Longacher (1895 - 1944)
Child	Betty Louise Hosmer (1921 - 2012)
Child	Marilyn Ruth Hosmer (1924 - 2011)
Child	Doris Virginia Hosmer (1927 - 1991)

Spouse

Stella Lucile (Charman) (Gray) Frazee (1897 - 1973)

Father	Charles Albert Hosmer (1855 - 1920)
Mother	Mary Elizabeth Hallett (1853 - 1929)
Sibling	Charles May Hosmer (1881 - 1963)
Sibling	Albert Edward Hosmer (1884 - 1908)
Sibling	Sophronia Hallett Hosmer (1890 - 1957)