Hosmer, Alfred

[[Lot 3747]]. Alfred Hosmer, a Watertown physician and historian, was born in 1832. He was the nephew of [[Hosmer, Hiram|Hiram Hosmer]] and cousin of [[Hosmer, Harriet|Harriet Hosmer]]. He was the founder and president of the Historical Society of Watertown from 1888 until 1891. He had a great interest in the area he was born and raised in. He felt it was urgent to “call attention to the importance of sifting the traditions which have been handed down of determining, while possible, the unwritten facts so fleeting our history, and especially, of decided and combined efforts to preserve them.”