Postwar Life
He married, in 1867, Ellen L. Newhill.
He served as postmaster in Island Pond, Vermont, from February 1867 to November 1885. He also studied law from 1870 to 1875, and was admitted to the Vermont Bar in 1875. He practiced law until 1892, then turned to the lumber business until 1897.
He was also director and later president of the National Bank of Derby Line, from 1885 to after 1905.
A Republican by political persuasion, he was state's attorney of Essex County in 1886. He was also elected representative of the town of Brighton in the Vermont General Assembly in 1886, serving on the judiciary committee and the committee on military affairs. In 1888 he represented Essex County as state senator. He served as lieutenant governor under Urban A. Woodbury, from 1894 to 1896, and was appointed Collector of Customs for the Memphremagog District by President Benjamin Harrison, serving in that capacity until 1906.
He was a trustee of the Vermont Soldiers' Home in Brattleboro from its creation in 1884, and a trustee of the University of Vermont.
Fraternal organizations he was active in included the Sons of the American Revolution, Vermont Officers' Reunion Society, Grand Army of the Republic, and Freemasonry.
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