Born the son of the Reverend Diodate and Miranda Hall Brockway in Ellington, Connecticut, Brockway pursued preparatory studies and was graduated from Yale College, New Haven, Connecticut, in 1820, at the age of twenty.
[4] He subsequently served as prosecuting attorney for Tolland County from August 1849 to April 1867, when he resigned for health reasons.
Shortly before the Civil War Brockway hosted a recent graduate of Yale College, Henry Billings Brown, to study law at his office.
[5] Brockway died in Ellington, Connecticut on July 29, 1870 (age 69 years, 179 days).
[6] This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress