Son of Joseph H Brainerd and Fanny Partridge
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Info below provided by: Cheryl Cartwright
GEORGE COTTON BRAINERD, son of Joseph Hungerford Brainerd (B A Yale 1822) and Fanny (Partridge) Brainerd, was born November 23, 1845, in St Albans, Vt. His father was a deacon of the Congregational church there forty years, a lawyer, and County Clerk of Franklin County, Vt., thirty-eight years. On the maternal side he was a great-grandson of Rev Joseph Lyman, D D (B A Yale 1767), and a descendant of Rev John Cotton of Boston. After graduation he taught school a year at Easton, Conn, then spent a few months in the West, and returning East began the study of law in St Albans In 1869 he entered the Harvard Law School, and received the degree of Bachelor of Laws there m 1871. The same year he was admitted to the bar of Vermont, and the following year to that of New York state Taking up his residence in Brooklyn, N Y, in 1871, he practiced his profession in that city until 1880, and after that in New York City He was counsel and one of the directors of the Brooklyn Sunday School Union, counsel of the Foreign Sunday School Association, and a member of the boards of the Brooklyn Association for the Improvement of the Condition of the Poor and the New York Seamen's Friend Society. In 1892 he was a Republican candidate for the General Assembly. He was a member of the Church of the Pilgrims, more than twenty years a teacher in its Chapel Sunday School, and two years superintendent of the Church school.
In February, 1907, an attack of cerebral hemorrhage removed him from active life. He died at his home in Brooklyn, January 8, 1912, in the 67th year of his age, and was buried at St Albans, Vt
He never married.
His brother (BA Univ Vt 1862) died in prison in Andersonville, Ga, in 1864, but a sister survives him.
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Info below provided by: Cheryl Cartwright
GEORGE COTTON BRAINERD, son of Joseph Hungerford Brainerd (B A Yale 1822) and Fanny (Partridge) Brainerd, was born November 23, 1845, in St Albans, Vt. His father was a deacon of the Congregational church there forty years, a lawyer, and County Clerk of Franklin County, Vt., thirty-eight years. On the maternal side he was a great-grandson of Rev Joseph Lyman, D D (B A Yale 1767), and a descendant of Rev John Cotton of Boston. After graduation he taught school a year at Easton, Conn, then spent a few months in the West, and returning East began the study of law in St Albans In 1869 he entered the Harvard Law School, and received the degree of Bachelor of Laws there m 1871. The same year he was admitted to the bar of Vermont, and the following year to that of New York state Taking up his residence in Brooklyn, N Y, in 1871, he practiced his profession in that city until 1880, and after that in New York City He was counsel and one of the directors of the Brooklyn Sunday School Union, counsel of the Foreign Sunday School Association, and a member of the boards of the Brooklyn Association for the Improvement of the Condition of the Poor and the New York Seamen's Friend Society. In 1892 he was a Republican candidate for the General Assembly. He was a member of the Church of the Pilgrims, more than twenty years a teacher in its Chapel Sunday School, and two years superintendent of the Church school.
In February, 1907, an attack of cerebral hemorrhage removed him from active life. He died at his home in Brooklyn, January 8, 1912, in the 67th year of his age, and was buried at St Albans, Vt
He never married.
His brother (BA Univ Vt 1862) died in prison in Andersonville, Ga, in 1864, but a sister survives him.
Son of Joseph H Brainerd and Fanny Partridge
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Info below provided by: Cheryl Cartwright
GEORGE COTTON BRAINERD, son of Joseph Hungerford Brainerd (B A Yale 1822) and Fanny (Partridge) Brainerd, was born November 23, 1845, in St Albans, Vt. His father was a deacon of the Congregational church there forty years, a lawyer, and County Clerk of Franklin County, Vt., thirty-eight years. On the maternal side he was a great-grandson of Rev Joseph Lyman, D D (B A Yale 1767), and a descendant of Rev John Cotton of Boston. After graduation he taught school a year at Easton, Conn, then spent a few months in the West, and returning East began the study of law in St Albans In 1869 he entered the Harvard Law School, and received the degree of Bachelor of Laws there m 1871. The same year he was admitted to the bar of Vermont, and the following year to that of New York state Taking up his residence in Brooklyn, N Y, in 1871, he practiced his profession in that city until 1880, and after that in New York City He was counsel and one of the directors of the Brooklyn Sunday School Union, counsel of the Foreign Sunday School Association, and a member of the boards of the Brooklyn Association for the Improvement of the Condition of the Poor and the New York Seamen's Friend Society. In 1892 he was a Republican candidate for the General Assembly. He was a member of the Church of the Pilgrims, more than twenty years a teacher in its Chapel Sunday School, and two years superintendent of the Church school.
In February, 1907, an attack of cerebral hemorrhage removed him from active life. He died at his home in Brooklyn, January 8, 1912, in the 67th year of his age, and was buried at St Albans, Vt
He never married.
His brother (BA Univ Vt 1862) died in prison in Andersonville, Ga, in 1864, but a sister survives him.
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Info below provided by: Cheryl Cartwright
GEORGE COTTON BRAINERD, son of Joseph Hungerford Brainerd (B A Yale 1822) and Fanny (Partridge) Brainerd, was born November 23, 1845, in St Albans, Vt. His father was a deacon of the Congregational church there forty years, a lawyer, and County Clerk of Franklin County, Vt., thirty-eight years. On the maternal side he was a great-grandson of Rev Joseph Lyman, D D (B A Yale 1767), and a descendant of Rev John Cotton of Boston. After graduation he taught school a year at Easton, Conn, then spent a few months in the West, and returning East began the study of law in St Albans In 1869 he entered the Harvard Law School, and received the degree of Bachelor of Laws there m 1871. The same year he was admitted to the bar of Vermont, and the following year to that of New York state Taking up his residence in Brooklyn, N Y, in 1871, he practiced his profession in that city until 1880, and after that in New York City He was counsel and one of the directors of the Brooklyn Sunday School Union, counsel of the Foreign Sunday School Association, and a member of the boards of the Brooklyn Association for the Improvement of the Condition of the Poor and the New York Seamen's Friend Society. In 1892 he was a Republican candidate for the General Assembly. He was a member of the Church of the Pilgrims, more than twenty years a teacher in its Chapel Sunday School, and two years superintendent of the Church school.
In February, 1907, an attack of cerebral hemorrhage removed him from active life. He died at his home in Brooklyn, January 8, 1912, in the 67th year of his age, and was buried at St Albans, Vt
He never married.
His brother (BA Univ Vt 1862) died in prison in Andersonville, Ga, in 1864, but a sister survives him.
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