Stephen Titus Hosmer was an American

United States

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 lawyer and jurist who was the Chief Justice of the State Supreme Court in Connecticut

Connecticut

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 from 1815 to 1833. He was born in Middletown, Connecticut

Middletown, Connecticut

Middletown is a city located in Middlesex County, Connecticut, along the Connecticut River, in the central part of the state, 16 miles south of Hartford. In 1650, it was incorporated as a town under its original Indian name, Mattabeseck. It received its present name in 1653. In 1784, the central...

 and lived there all his life. He attended Yale University

Yale University

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, graduating in 1782. He was a member of the Connecticut Council

Connecticut Senate

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 for ten years.

Hosmer was the son of Titus Hosmer

Titus Hosmer

Titus Hosmer was an American lawyer from Middletown, Connecticut. He was a delegate for Connecticut to the Continental Congress in 1778, where he signed the Articles of Confederation....

, a member of the Continental Congress

Continental Congress

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Hosmer married Lucia Parsons, a daughter of General Samuel Holden Parsons

Samuel Holden Parsons

Samuel Holden Parsons was an American lawyer, jurist, and military leader.Parsons was born in Lyme, Connecticut, the son of Jonathan Parsons and Phoebe 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.)