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Brainerd, eldest child of Joseph S. and Hannah (Hungerford) Brainerd, was born in Chatham, now Portland, Connecticut, March 22, 1801.
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Joseph Brainerd
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He spent two and a half years in the University of Vermont, and then entered Yale College, where he graduated in 1822. After graduation and about a year spent in teaching in Bryan County, Georgia., he returned to Saint Albans and studied law with Honorary
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Asa Aldis. He was admitted to practice in September 1825, and soon opened a law office in Saint In 1831, 1832, and 1833, he was elected one of the Executive Council of the State,—a body which was superseded by the present Vermont Senate. In 1831 he also became editor and proprietor of an anti-masonic paper in Street Albans, called the Franklin Journal, which he conducted for about five years. In April 1834, he was appointed Clerk of the Courts of Franklin County, which office he held until his resignation in August 1872.
After a useful and honored life, he died at the family homestead, March 28, 1879, aged 78 years.
This article incorporates public domain material from the Yale Obituary Record.
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