User talk:Hosmerdescendant

Charles Daniels (New York politician)
I can find at least two references on the web that say that Mary Daniels was Judge Charles Daniels' sister - a piece in the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record (I had to use Google's cached version of this, the webpage refused to load) and John A. Hosmer's bio in the History of the Bar and Bench of California, where it lists his various prominent relations, including Judge Daniels, specifically stated to be an uncle on his mother's side. So, at the very least, John Hosmer was claiming that Charles Daniels was his uncle (and I don't see why he would make that claim falsely, he had plenty of prominent forebears already.) Brianyoumans (talk) 08:34, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

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re: Charles Daniels being brother of Mary Daniels Hosmer
Interesting! Thank you! It is strange that Hezekiah Hosmer did not mention Judge Charles Daniels in his memoirs since he did a lot of name dropping in it. Perhaps the famiy was not that close. There was a mention of Thomas Daniels who came to tend to an ill member of the family (off the top of my head since the memoir is not at my house-I believe it was Judge John Hosmer when he was a child).

I did a little bit of searching in the census records. The 1850 Buffalo, NY census: Chs Daniels age 29 lawyer and born in Wales, wife Mary J. Daniels age 21 b. NY. It shows for the 1860 census for Buffalo, Erie County, New York: Charles Daniels atty at law b. Wales age 35; wife Mary age 31 b. NY and children were Charles H. age 8 and Jennie C. age 4. The 1880 census shows Charles Daniels as Supreme Court Judge age 60, born in Wales and his parents being born in Wales. His wife is Mary age 41 (a second wife?), son Charles W. age 27 and a lawyer, daughter Jennie age 23, and Walter age 9. http://persi.heritagequestonline.com/hqoweb/library/do/census/results/image?surname=daniels&givenname=charles&series=10&state=1&countyid=831&hitcount=3&p=1&urn=urn%3Aproquest%3AUS%3Bcensus%3B13309191%3B219916339%3B10%3B1&searchtype=1&offset=0

So, if Mary Daniels was born in Wales in 1818 and Charles was actually b. in Buffalo, NY in 1825, I might be able to find a passanger list for Mary. (I have to keep an eye out for a Mr. Daniels who was a shoemaker in Ohio.) Between 1825 and 1842, the family moved to New York from Ohio.

I am descended from Hezekiah Hosmer's daughter, Sarah Hosmer Austin. (I've been seeing a lot of sloppy information posted on ancestry.com's family trees without sources (some hijacked from my website and not noted) and people just get slap-happy and take it as truth.)

More links now to add to my website! I'm constantly making changes to it. I hope to add some of his handwritten work as the background photo.

Hosmerdescendant (talk) 21:20, 21 February 2011 (UTC)