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Cephas Brainard attended schools in Haddam each winter, spending the summers on the farm. From age 19 he began a course of historical and general reading toward a line of study for the legal profession. He obtained two years practical training in New York in the office of the Chief Justice Curtis. He was admitted to the bar in September 1855. He made appearances before the US Supreme Court, the Relief Committee of New York, a committee of the NY State Legislature regarding the reorganization of the Public School System in New York city, and the US Congress.
[from the “History of Middlesex County, Connecticut”, J.B. Beers & Co., New York, 1884, page 407 et seq]
From “The Congregationalist” of April 27, 1901. "He was chairman of the Y. M. C. A. International Committee. As a lawyer one of his earliest and brilliant successes was gained in 1864, when he represented the claims of the thousand negroes whose property was destroyed by rioters in 1863, to such good effect that the court sustained the law imposing upon cities the responsibility for damages caused by rioters. He has lent his aid to many good causes since then, both along legal and philanthropic lines. For 27 years he superintended the Sunday School of the Seventh Presbyterian Church in New York City. He has been prominent in the New York Prison Association and, since 1857 has been a director of the Y. M. C. A. …”
[Extract from an article by Rev. C. S. Sargent, Adams,
Mass., in “The Congregationalist” of March. 16, 1893.]
[see also Lucy Abigail Brainard, “The Genealogy of the Brainerd-Brainard Family in America” Hartford, Press, 1908
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Cephas Brainard attended schools in Haddam each winter, spending the summers on the farm. From age 19 he began a course of historical and general reading toward a line of study for the legal profession. He obtained two years practical training in New York in the office of the Chief Justice Curtis. He was admitted to the bar in September 1855. He made appearances before the US Supreme Court, the Relief Committee of New York, a committee of the NY State Legislature regarding the reorganization of the Public School System in New York city, and the US Congress.
[from the “History of Middlesex County, Connecticut”, J.B. Beers & Co., New York, 1884, page 407 et seq]
From “The Congregationalist” of April 27, 1901. "He was chairman of the Y. M. C. A. International Committee. As a lawyer one of his earliest and brilliant successes was gained in 1864, when he represented the claims of the thousand negroes whose property was destroyed by rioters in 1863, to such good effect that the court sustained the law imposing upon cities the responsibility for damages caused by rioters. He has lent his aid to many good causes since then, both along legal and philanthropic lines. For 27 years he superintended the Sunday School of the Seventh Presbyterian Church in New York City. He has been prominent in the New York Prison Association and, since 1857 has been a director of the Y. M. C. A. …”
[Extract from an article by Rev. C. S. Sargent, Adams,
Mass., in “The Congregationalist” of March. 16, 1893.]
[see also Lucy Abigail Brainard, “The Genealogy of the Brainerd-Brainard Family in America” Hartford, Press, 1908
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