Actress. Born into a family of stage performers, she had her own stock company in Chicago from 1896 to 1908. Among her roles was the title character in "Trilby". Around 1906 she married actor Francis Boggs, who was on his way to becoming top director for Chicago's Selig movie studio; it was her sixth marriage and his second. In 1909 Selig sent Boggs to Los Angeles to establish a new West Coast branch while Hosmer remained in Chicago, making periodic visits. On October 27, 1911, she learned her husband had been murdered in his office; upon her arrival in Los Angeles she told reporters she had previously voiced her concern about the "suspicious" behavior of the killer, studio gardener Frank Minnimatsu. Hosmer confronted Minnimatsu in a private interview and demanded to know his motive for the crime, but he only responded, "He was a bad man, so I killed him". Three weeks later she brought Boggs' cremains back with her to Chicago. She remarried in 1914 and may have occasionally appeared onstage before her death in New Orleans. Hosmer shares a plot with her mother and Boggs in Graceland Cemetery.
Actress. Born into a family of stage performers, she had her own stock company in Chicago from 1896 to 1908. Among her roles was the title character in "Trilby". Around 1906 she married actor Francis Boggs, who was on his way to becoming top director for Chicago's Selig movie studio; it was her sixth marriage and his second. In 1909 Selig sent Boggs to Los Angeles to establish a new West Coast branch while Hosmer remained in Chicago, making periodic visits. On October 27, 1911, she learned her husband had been murdered in his office; upon her arrival in Los Angeles she told reporters she had previously voiced her concern about the "suspicious" behavior of the killer, studio gardener Frank Minnimatsu. Hosmer confronted Minnimatsu in a private interview and demanded to know his motive for the crime, but he only responded, "He was a bad man, so I killed him". Three weeks later she brought Boggs' cremains back with her to Chicago. She remarried in 1914 and may have occasionally appeared onstage before her death in New Orleans. Hosmer shares a plot with her mother and Boggs in Graceland Cemetery.
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