After leaving College he began to read law, but from trouble with his eyes was led to engage in farming in his native town, which occupation he afterwards adopted.
In 1846, and again in 1847, and in 1851, he was chosen to the State Senate, and thus became ex officio in the two latter terms a member of the Corporation of Yale College.
In 1848 he represented Wilton, Connecticut in the House, and in 1852 was appointed bank commissioner.
He died at his ancestral home in Wilton, Conn., December 1, 1883, in his 81st year, after a protracted illness.
This article incorporates public domain material from the 1884 Yale Obituary Record.