Honorable Stephen Mix Mitchell

Stephen Mix Mitchell was born 9 December 1743 in Wethersfield, Connecticut, the only child of James Mitchell and his second wife, Rebecca Mix Mitchell. He graduated from Yale in 1763. In 1766, he began a three-year tutorship at Yale, studying law in the meantime. On 2 August 1769, he married Hannah Grant of Newtown, Connecticut. They had eleven children, one of whom was Judge Walter Mitchell. In 1770, Stephen Mix Mitchell was admitted to the Fairfield County Bar and settled in Newtown, Connecticut. In the year 1772, he returned to Wethersfield for seven years. He became a representative in the General Assembly of the State in 1778; Associate Judge of the Hartford County Court in 1779; Judge of the Superior court in 1795, and Chief Justice of the State in 1807. Stephen Mix Mitchell remained a representative in the General Assembly until his transfer to the Upper House of the Legislature in 1784. He was re-elected to the House of Assistants in 1785, 1787-1792; U.S. Senator 1793-1795; Delegate to the Continental Congress 1783, 1785, and 1787; Member of the State Convention which ratified the Constitution of the U.S. In 1814 he finally retired. He died 30 September 1835 in Wethersfield, Connecticut, aged 93.