William H. Brand
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William H. Brand (April 20, 1824 Leonardsville, Madison County, New York – 1891) was an American merchant and politician from New York.
Life
He attended the district schools and the Oneida Institute. Then he taught school, became a clerk in a country store, and later opened his own business.
He was a member of the New York State Assembly (Madison Co., 1st D.) in 1862 and 1863; Supervisor of the Town of Brookfield from 1867 to 1869; and a member of the New York State Senate (21st D.) in 1870 and 1871.
He was buried at the Seventh Day Baptist Cemetery in Leonardsville.
Sources
- The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough, Stephen C. Hutchins and Edgar Albert Werner (1870; pg. 444, 496 and 498)
- Life Sketches of Executive Officers, and Members of the Legislature of the State of New York, Vol. III by H. H. Boone & Theodore P. Cook (1870; pg. 64ff)
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- 1824 births
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- Republican Party New York (state) state senators
- People from Brookfield, New York
- Republican Party members of the New York State Assembly
- Town supervisors in New York (state)
- 19th-century American legislators
- Oneida Institute alumni