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- ↑ Biography of Hosmer, Montana Memory Project
- ↑ Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America, Vol. XVII, Washington: Government Printing Office, 1901, p. 116
- ↑ Virginia City post office records kept by Hosmer
- ↑ Online Masonic bio of Hosmer
- ↑ Proceedings of the M. W. Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of California, San Francisco: Frank Eastman, 1871, p. 485
- ↑ History of the Bar and Bench of California, John A. Hosmer, 1901, p. 873
- ↑ New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. 37 (1906), The Throope Family and the Scrope Tradition, Winchester Fitch, p. 46
- 1 2 Hezekiah Lord Hosmer II
- ↑ Genealogy of the Hosmer Family, James Hosmer, 1861
- ↑ Montana: A State Guide Book, Federal Writers' Project, revised ed. 1949, p. 102
- ↑ The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record (volume 83)
