Stephen Hosmer
Stephen Titus Hosmer(January 10, 1763[1]– August 5, 1834) was an American lawyer and jurist who was the chief justice of theConnecticut Supreme Courtfrom 1815 to 1833.[2]
Biography[edit]
He was born inMiddletown, Connecticutand lived there all his life. He was the son ofTitus Hosmer,a member of theContinental Congress.He attendedYale University,graduating in 1782, and began his law practice in 1785.[2]He was a member of theConnecticut Councilfor ten years.[3]
Hosmer married Lucia Parsons, a daughter of GeneralSamuel Holden Parsons;they had 11 children, of which only 3 were alive in 1834 when Hosmer died (and his daughter Sarah Mehetable died of cholera eight days after her father.)[1]
References[edit]
- ^abGenealogy of the Hosmer Family, James Hosmer, Hartford, 1861
- ^abWilson, J. G.;Fiske, J.,eds. (1892)..Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography.New York: D. Appleton.
- ^The Medico-legal Journal, Volume 16 (1898), p. 432
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