[1] He lived in Denton until he was 17 when he moved to Fort Worth to learn printing.

He worked as a printer across Texas in Paris, San Antonio, Victoria, and Brownsville.

In 1896, he moved to Ardmore, Oklahoma and in 1897 he founded the Muskogee Morning Times.

He later bought the Denton County News and a mercantile store in Shawnee, Oklahoma.

[3] He died of tuberculosis in Oklahoma City on July 14, 1922, aged 49.