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- He studied law in Potsdam, but gave up his studies to enroll as a private in Company M., Eleventh New York Cavalry at Canton. He entered service at Albany on September 15, 1862. His diary, describing the trip from his home to Albany by train, and thence by boat to New York, is in the possession of William Farrand Branch of the next generation. Within a few weeks of his arrival in new York, he was invalided to Camp Relief hospital, where he died on November 12, 1862. He was buried in the Bixby Cemetery, at Norfolk, NY.
He worked in Champlain for three years, meeting there Mary Ellen Eddy, whom he married on July 15, 1900.
A few months before his marriage, he had taken over the management of a drug store in Malone, NY, for Frank Spencer. On October 25, 1900, he purchased O.L. Chapin's drug business in Champlain, and made his home in that town since theat time. In 1913, in addition to his drug store, he took the Fred Agency for that section. He sold the drug store in 1923, and the automobile business in 1925, keeping only the Broder and Branch Insurance Agency, which he had acquired in partnership with William Broder from the estate of Thomas H. Dickinson in 1915. This is one of the oldest agencies in Clinton County, having been formed during the early part of the 1800s. William Farrand Branch became the sole owner of this agency in 1918.
His retired life, however, did not appeal to him, so he applied for service as Deputy Collector of Customs, and on September 4, 1926, he was appointed at Trut River, NY, but was soon transferred to Malone, and on Feb. 3, 1927, was stationed at his home town, Champlain.
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1840 - 1862 (22 years)
