[2] While at Yale in November 1902, he was arrested on charges of assaulting a ticket seller for a Yale-Harvard football game;[3] one month later, he was fined for it.

[4] Orthwein competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics as a freestyle and backstroke swimmer and water polo player.

[5] He served as the vice president and general counsel of the Kinloch Telephone Company in 1920.

[6] In that capacity, he refused to sell the business to the Bell Telephone Company.

[6] During World War II, he served as a supply commissioner for the City of St.