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After attending the local public school and Potsdam Normal School, he taught at West Stockholm and at Edwards, NY. Abandoning teaching he entered the Iowa State Medical College, from which he graduated in 1896, and immediately began the practice of medicine at Grand Isle, Vermont. He acquired a large practice and became well-known throughout the state.
In 1910 Dr. Branch was elected Representative to Montpelier, and State Senator in 1923. He was also an Associate Judge of Grand Isle County. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and belonged to isle of Patmos Masonic Lodge, Hill Chapter of Royal Arch Masons, and to the Commandery at Burlington, Vermont.

Died:
Buried at Grand Isle.

George married Mattie Bell [Hazen] Branch on 4 Jun 1902. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Katherine Sylvia [Branch] Tudhope was born on 13 Jun 1903.
2. George Walter Branch was born on 26 Sep 1904.
3. Bertha Hazen [Branch] Low was born on 24 May 1906.
4. Leonard Harvey Branch was born on 31 Aug 1908.
5. Richard Olney Branch was born on 12 Oct 1910.
6. Darwin Pearl Branch was born on 16 Apr 1912.

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He accompanied his parents on the long trip to Canton, NY, in 1836, and attended district school in his new home. About 1845 the family moved to Norfolk, NY. After his marriage he went to live on a farm at Lost Nation, about two miles northeast of his father's farm. After Sylvia was born Walter's wife Sylvia died the next year, and Walter returned to hes father's house.
About 1864 Walter moved to Hewittville, NY, with his parents, and continued to live with them until his second marriage.
He bought the house later known as the Shores place, diagonally across the road from his father's, and it was here that his two sons, were born. About 1875, upon the death of his sister Jane's husband, he rented the Freeman farm, while she returned to her father's home at Hewittville. Thye Freeman farm was located approximately a mile north of Hewittville, on a hill overlooking the Raquette River, and fully a quarter of a mile back from the road. Rhe entrance drive passed through a low, marsh place, which was spanned by a flimsy wooden bridge. One night, in the early spring of 1880, while driving home from an entertainment at the nearby schoolhouse, Walter missed the bridge in the darkness and the whole family was overturned into the creek. His wife, Eunice, caught a cold from the misadventure from which she never recovered; herlings were affected, and later in the year it became necessary for them to give up the farm and live with her mother. Troubles piled up on them; Eunice's mother died in 1881, and she became, herself, too ill to carry on the household. The year 1882 was the climax. Walter's wife died at the age of 39, and was buried in the Hewittsville Cemetery and in Dec. his mother died also, and was buried at Norfolk.
For the following few years the family was broken up: William went to live with his uncle, Charles S. Monroe, at Hewittville; George lived with with another uncle, George Monroe, a doctor in South Canton; while the father, Walter, went to Lowell, Mass., to live with his daughter, Sylvia, Who had married Sylvas C. Shipman. In 1884 he was temporarily recalled to Hewittville by the death of his father. In 1885 his daughter, Sylvia, died in Lowell, and he returned to Hewittville and settled in the family home with his sisters, Jane and Eliza [Lill], and his two sons. He opened a grocery store and meat market in 1885, having sold his house to raise the necessary funds. In 1890 he sold this business to John Cross.

Died:
Buried beside his wife, Eunice, in the Hewittville Cemetary.

Walter married Eunice L. [Monroe] Branch on 11 May 1869 in Potsdam, NY. Eunice (daughter of George A. Monroe and Esteher V. [Lane] Monroe) died on 22 Oct 1882. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Married:
MARR: OFFI Rev. J.W. Daniels

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In 1824 he was living in Panton, Vermont. John Harvey sold his farm in Panton in March, 1836 and moved Canton, New York, where he settled on a farm. On this trip westward, his family7, consisting of his wife and four children, and his household goods, were loaded on a long sleigh drawn by two horses, while he rode a third horse. Years later his son, Walter C., then six years old, told of the journey down the Vermont shore, crossing Lake Champlain on the ice somewhere in the vicinity of Rouses Point, and proceeding through Champlain and Chateaugay to Canton.
About 1860, he again sold his farm, and moved to Norfolk, New york, where he purchased a farm located agbout four miles northeast of Norfolk, on the Lost Nation Road. Unfortunately, the old homestead burned down, so that only the stone foundation remains to mark the spot, but the double row of maple trees which he planted, and which extend a quarter of a mile in each direction from the house, still stand, as do the two old barns which are directly across the road from the house.
By 1870 he had sold the farm near Norfolk, and purchased a house in Hewittville, New York, on the high bank of the Raquette River. this became his home, and his children's home, for many years. His wife died there.
It is to be regretted that several years later his daughter, Eliza Ann, had the old markers showing the dates of their deaths, together with the markers of three children, replaced by a plain but well- proportioned brown stone monument with only the name BRANCH inscribed on it. In front of this monument, stretching the width of the lot, are the small markers with the following names--but no dates:
Georgie Harvey Pamelia William Mother Father Eliza A.
In addition to being a very successful farmer, John Harvey Branch was a wheelwright and a casket-maker.

Died:
Buried in the Bixby Cemetery, about three miles out of Norfolk, on the Lost Nation Road.
It is to be regretted that several years later his daughter, Eliza Ann, had the old markers showing the dates of their deaths, together with the markers of three children, replaced by a plain but well- proportioned brown stone monument with only the name BRANCH inscribed on it. In front of this monument, stretching the width of the lot, are the small markers with the following names--but no dates:
Georgie Harvey Pamelia William Mother Father Eliza A.

John married Samantha [Gaines] Branch on 10 Jun 1824 in Panton, VT.. Samantha (daughter of Jonathan Gaines and Betsy [Farrand] Gaines) died on 27 Dec 1882 in Hewittville, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Died:
Buried in the Bixby Cemetery, about three miles out of Norfolk, on the Lost Nation Road.
It is to be regretted that several years later his daughter, Eliza Ann, had the old markers showing the dates of their deaths, together with the markers of three children, replaced by a plain but well- proportioned brown stone monument with only the name BRANCH inscribed on it. In front of this monument, stretching the width of the lot, are the small markers with the following names--but no dates:
Georgie Harvey Pamelia William Mother Father Eliza A.

George + Esteher V. [Lane] Monroe. Esteher died in Aug 1881. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Shubal moved with his parents to Whiting, Vermont, in 1785, and there married Freelove Rice. Most of his life was apparently spent in Whiting.

Shubal married Freelove [Rice] Branch on 1 Jan 1795 in Whiting, VT.. Freelove and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jonathan + Betsy [Farrand] Gaines. Betsy (daughter of Bethuel Farrand and Rhoda [Smith] Farrand) was born in 1770; died on 17 Jun 1836. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]