| Obed Francis Strickland | |
| Birth Date: | April 3, 1833 |
| Birth Place: | Dansville, New York, United States |
| Death Date: | June 28, 1887 |
| Death Place: | St. Johns, Michigan, United States |
| Office: | Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Utah Territory |
| Termend: | 1873 |
| Termstart: | 1869 |
| Office1: | Judge in the Third Circuit of the Utah Territory |
| Termend1: | 1869 |
| Termstart1: | 1867 |
| Predecessor: | Enos D. Hoge |
| Successor: | Phillip H. Emerson |
| Governor: | Charles Durkee |
| Governor1: | Charles Durkee |
| Office2: | Probate Judge of Madison County, Montana |
| Termend2: | 1866 |
| Termstart2: | 1865 |
| Party: | Unionist[1] |
Obed Francis Strickland (April 3, 1833 – June 28, 1887)[2] was a justice of the Supreme Court of the Utah Territory from 1869 to 1873.
Born in Dansville, New York, Strickland was a Freemason who moved to the Montana Territory with a promise of wealth from mining. He moved to the Utah Territory in May 1866,[3] and reached the rank of Grand Master in 1872.[4] [5] He founded Wasatch Lodge No. 1 in Salt Lake City with Reuben H. Robertson, whom he had worked with in Montana previously.[6]
Strickland practiced law as early as 1865 in Madison County, Montana, where he served as a probate judge and attorney.[7] [8] He became a judge who served on the Third District Court of the Utah Territory, and later served on the Supreme Court of the Utah Territory from 1869 until 1873.[9] After Strickland's term as associate justice ended, it was claimed by a local newspaper that he paid for his position for $2,800 (US$65,000 in today's money) through a payment to Thomas J. Drake, who sued Strickland in court.[10]
He left Utah in 1882, and died suddenly from heart disease in St. Johns, Michigan, at the age of 54. He is buried at DeWitt City Cemetery in DeWitt, Michigan.