the wife of F. Stewart Stranahan. During the Civil War, Herbert Brainerd served as quartermaster of the 1st Vermont Cavalry Regiment. References External links 1794 births 1870 deaths People from East Hartford, Connecticut American people of English descent American Congregationalists Vermont Jacksonians Vermont Whigs Vermont Libertyites Vermont Free Soilers Free Soil Party United States senators from Vermont Vermont Republicans Members of the Vermont House of Representatives Underground Railroad people People from St. Albans, Vermont Politicians from Troy, New York Activists from New York (state) American bankers 19th-century American railroad executives Congregationalist abolitionists