Charles T. Tozier

Charles Tozier was born on November 7, 1832, in Manchester, Indiana.[1] He was married to Caroline Miner, who died in 1857; he then married Zerilda Mayfield (December 22, 1841 – March 31, 1912) on August 1, 1858, in Nebraska.[2] Tozier had one child by his first wife, and five with his second wife. The children were Edith, Nellie, LeRoy, Rozella, and Albert E. Tozier, the latter a newspaper editor and historian.[3]

In 1863, the family, which consisted of Charles, Zerilda, Rozella, and Albert, immigrated overland to Oregon via the Oregon Trail.[2] The family settled in Washington County.[3] From July 1872, to July 1876 he was the sheriff of the county.[4] In 1876, Tozier was elected to a two-year term in the Oregon House of Representatives as a Republican representing the county during the 1876 legislative session.[5] He also was on Hillsboro's first city council that year, serving from 1876 to 1877.[6] In 1877, he was elected as the second mayor of the city, which is the county seat and incorporated in 1876.[7] Tozier was mayor from December 10, 1877 to December 3, 1878.[7] Charles T. Tozier died in Wallace, Idaho, on July 6, 1899, and is buried at Hillsboro Pioneer Cemetery.