Caleb Stetson

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| name = Caleb Stetson

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| state = Massachusetts

| state_house = Massachusetts

| district = Norfolk

| term = 1853

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| party = Democratic

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| birth_date = January 6, 1801

| birth_place = Braintree, Massachusetts

| death_date = January 1885

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| occupation = Shoe Manufacturer

| residence = Braintree, Massachusetts

| spouse = Susannah Hunt

| children = Albert Everett Stetson

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Caleb Stetson (January 6, 1801 – January 1885) was an American businessman and politician from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. A Democrat, in 1852 he was elected to serve in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. In the legislature he was the Chairman of the House Committee on Banking. He was a member of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1853. He was also an early promoter and president of the South Shore Railroad.[https://books.google.com/books?id=A3MtAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA20 Caleb Stetson bio] He lost property in the Great fire of Boston.{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29163620/list-of-homes-and-businesses-destroyed/|title=Great fire of 1872}}

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The reference for Caleb Stetson is https://books.google.com/books?id=A3MtAAAAYAAJ&q=caleb+stetson&pg=PA20

Bibliography

  • Annual Obituary Notices of Eminent Persons who Have Died in the United States p. 346 By Nathan Crosby (1858).
  • History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts: With Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men Vol I. By Duane Hamilton Hurd pp. 131–132. (1884).
  • Journal of the Constitutional Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: Begun and Held in Boston, on the Fourth Day of May, 1853 By Massachusetts Constitutional Convention p. 53, 191(1853).

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Category:1801 births

Category:1885 deaths

Category:Democratic Party members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives

Category:Politicians from Braintree, Massachusetts

Category:19th-century members of the Massachusetts General Court

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