The Poetical Works Of William H. C. Hosmer: Yonnondio. Legends Of The Senecas. Indian Traditions And Songs. Bird-notes. The Months...
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The Poetical Works Of William H. C. Hosmer: Yonnondio. Legends Of The Senecas. Indian Traditions And Songs. Bird-notes. The Months; Volume 1 Of The Poetical Works Of William H. C. Hosmer; William Howe Cuyler Hosmer
William Howe Cuyler Hosmer
Redfield, 1854
Social Science; Ethnic Studies; Native American Studies; History / Native American; Indians of North America; Seneca Indians; Social Science / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies
(Later lays and lyrics (1873). This book, "Later lays and ...)
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Hosmer was born in Avon, New York, on May 25, 1814. He was the son of George and Elizabeth (Berry) Hosmer, and the sixth in descent from Thomas Hosmer of Hawkhurst, Kent, who emigrated to Newtown (Cambridge, Massachussets) before 1632 and followed Thomas Hooker to Hartford in 1636. His grandfather, Timothy Hosmer, a brother of Titus Hosmer, served as a surgeon in the Continental Army, migrated from Farmington, Connecticut, to the Genesee Valley in 1792-93, and became the first judge of the court of common pleas of Ontario County. His father was a lawyer; his mother spoke several Indian languages and imparted her sympathy for the Indians to her son.
Education
He studied Indians not only in western New York but in Wisconsin (1836) and Florida (1838 - 39). Hosmer was educated at Temple Hill Academy, Geneseo, and Geneva (now Hobart) College (A. B. , 1837).
Career
He spent the greater part of his life in the practice of law at Avon. His local reputation as a poet began in his student days.
He was a clerk in the New York custom house, 1854-58; enlisted November 12, 1862, as a private in the 26th Battery of New York Volunteers; and, though rejected by the surgeon, managed to accompany the battery to New Orleans and on Gen. N. P. Banks's Red River expedition. Meanwhile his son William was drowned; another son Charles was killed, May 3, 1863, at Chancellorsville; his wife died in 1864; and Hosmer, with his health enfeebled by dysentery, returned home forlorn and prematurely old.
Beginning as a young man, he had contributed poems to newspapers, magazines, and the sessions of various societies. His separate pamphlets and volumes include The Pioneers of Western New-York (Geneva, 1838); The Prospects of the Age (Burlington, Vt. , 1841); Themes of Song (Rochester, 1842); Yonnondio, or Warriors of the Genesee: A Tale of the Seventeenth Century (New York, 1844); "Genundewah, " in Henry Schoolcraft's Address Delivered Before the Was-Ah Ho-De-No-Son-Ne (Rochester, 1846); The Months (Boston, 1847); "Lament for Sa-sa-na, " in A Memorial for Sa-sa-na, the Mohawk Maiden, Who Perished in the Rail Road Disaster at Deposit, N. Y. , Feb. 18, 1852 (Hamilton, N. Y. , 1852); The Poetical Works of William H. C. Hosmer (2 vols. , New York, 1854); Agricultural Ode (Lansing, Mich. , 1864); and Later Lays and Lyrics (Rochester, 1873).
His originality lay in his enthusiastic attempt to embody in his verse the legends, traditions, and spirit of the Seneca Indians. The seven cantos of Yonnondio contain some good narrative, and the "Legends of the Senecas" and the "Indian Traditions and Songs" can be read with interest. He is at his best, however, in the poems descriptive of his native region, particularly in "Bird-Notes" and "The Months, " in which his affectionate observation of nature overcomes a clumsy, rhetorical style.
He died at Avon at the close of his sixty-third year.
Achievements
He is remembered as a poet from the United States.
