Horatio J. Homer was born in Farmington, Connecticut back in 1848, to Charles and Sarah. He left school when he was twelve and worked as a bellhop in Waterbury, Connecticut. Before moving to Boston, Massachusetts he held several jobs, a steward on a steamboat and a porter on a Pullman car just to name a few.
He moved to Boston in 1873, finding work as a waiter at the Commonwealth Hotel. In 1873, he was working as a janitor at the Globe Theatre. In 1878, he started working for the Boston Police where he served for 40 years. He met every president from Rutherford B. Hayes to Woodrow Wilson. He also served as an escort for foreign ambassadors. He retired from the police force in 1919 as a sergeant he was 70, sadly he died four years later at the age of 74.
What you may not know about Horatio is that he was the first African-American to be hired by the Boston Police Department.
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