 He entered his father's office as a student of medicine, and practiced for about two years.Then he gave up the practice of medicine, and occupied himself with agriculture, his landed interests in Warren being considerable.In 1826, he married Perses Narina Tunnicliff, daughter of William Tunnicliff, and granddaughter of the Count George Ernst August von Ranzau, an officer on the staff of the Friedrich Adolf Riedesel, and author of the interesting "Journal of Burgoyne's Expedition" contained in the archives of the general staff at Berlin.