After graduating from Yale College in 1821, he studied law in New Haven, with Staples and Hitchcock, and was admitted to the bar in 1825.
He settled in his native town as an iron manufacturer, retiring from business in 1853, and was also largely occupied with public trusts.
In 1873 he published the Annals and Family Records of Winchester (octavo, pp.
He next married on December 10, 1843, Jerusha Rockwell Hinsdale, a daughter of Solomon Rockwell, and the widow of Theodore Hinsdale, of Winsted, who died March 11, 1875, aged 72 years.
This article incorporates public domain material from the 1882 Yale Obituary Record.