Template:Short description Stephen Titus Hosmer (January 10, 1763<ref name=genes>Genealogy of the Hosmer Family, James Hosmer, Hartford, 1861</ref> – August 5, 1834) was an American lawyer and jurist who was the chief justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court from 1815 to 1833.<ref name=acab>Template:Cite Appletons'</ref>
BiographyEdit
He was born in Middletown, Connecticut and lived there all his life. He was the son of Titus Hosmer, a member of the Continental Congress. He attended Yale University, graduating in 1782, and began his law practice in 1785.<ref name=acab/> He was a member of the Connecticut Council for ten years.<ref>The Medico-legal Journal, Volume 16 (1898), p. 432</ref>
Hosmer married Lucia Parsons, a daughter of General Samuel 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.)<ref name=genes/>