Seth Perkins Staples

His legal attainments and his excellent library early drew around him a large number of students, and he soon found himself at the head of a flourishing private Law School.

After toiling alone for several years, in 1820 he called to his aid Judge Samuel J. Hitchcock, and made him a partner both in his business and in his Law School.

[1] In 1846 the School thus originated, having meanwhile passed into other hands, was formally recognized by the Corporation of Yale College, as the Law Department of that Institution.

During his residence in New Haven, he was several times a Representative of the town, in the Legislature of Connecticut, but he withdrew wholly from public life in 1816.

He was married in Nov., 1799, to Catharine, the only daughter of Rev S. Wales, Prof, of Divinity in Yale College.