Stephen Titus Hosmer (January 10, 1763Genealogy of the Hosmer Family, James Hosmer, Hartford, 1861 – August 5, 1834) was an American lawyer and jurist who was the chief justice of the

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from 1815 to 1833.

Biography

He was born in Middletown, Connecticut and lived there all his life. He was the son of

Titus Hosmer Titus Hosmer (1736 – August 4, 1780) was an American Founding Father, lawyer, and jurist from Middletown, Connecticut. He was a delegate for Connecticut to the Continental Congress in 1778, when he signed the Articles of Confederation. Biogr ...

, a member of the Continental Congress. He attended

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, graduating in 1782, and began his law practice in 1785. He was a member of the Connecticut Council for ten years.The Medico-legal Journal, Volume 16 (1898), p. 432 Hosmer married Lucia Parsons, a daughter of General

Samuel Holden Parsons Samuel Holden Parsons (May 14, 1737 – November 17, 1789) was an American lawyer, jurist, generalHeitman, ''Officers of the Continental Army'', 428. in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and a pioneer to the Ohio Countr ...

; 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.)

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1763 births 1834 deaths Politicians from Middletown, Connecticut Connecticut state court judges Chief Justices of the Connecticut Supreme Court Connecticut state senators Members of the Connecticut General Assembly Council of Assistants (1662–1818) Yale University alumni {{Connecticut-state-judge-stub