After leaving college, he studied law with Chief Justice Zephaniah Swift, of Windham, Connecticut, and was admitted to the bar in 1824, and was for a few years a practicing attorney in Hartford.
In 1830 he went to the island of Cuba to reside, but the death of his father in April, 1831, changed his plans, and caused him to return to Hartford.
In 1835 he was appointed by the Connecticut State Legislature a judge of probate for the district of Hartford, and held that office for one year.
Alter her death he moved in the spring of 1867 with his son to New Haven, Connecticut, where he spent the remainder of his life in invalid retirement.
This article incorporates public domain material from the Yale Obituary Record.