Born in Chicago, younger brother of Virgil Brand. Graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1891. Married Louise M. Keller in July 1897. They had two daughters. Married Margaret True in 1909. She died in 1918. In 1924 he married Erna Marie Euprhasina Hedin. Their divorce became final in 1940. Married Elizabeth Schroll in 1940. Elizabeth died in 1950. Erna died in May 1985.

Brand joined partners to form the Brand, Bullen & Gund Company in 1896. In 1897 he began management of the Brandsville Fruit Farm Company. In 1909 he bought part of the Illinois Publishing Company.

In 1953 he conducted one numismatic auction sale. He offered the Brasher Doubloon and other rarities in an ad in the May 1953 issue of The Numismatist. In 1954 he opened the Gibraltar Coin Company. It was managed by his grandson, Michael Brand Zeddies.

Brand was a 32nd degree Mason. He died at West Plains, Missouri.

bio: EAB 34 see: Virgil Brand: The Man and His Era