He attended Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute from 1864 to 1870, and John C. Overheisus Classical School from 1871 to 1873.
[1] Then he became secretary of his father, an extensive land owner in Jefferson County, and supervised a variety of business operations until 1880.
Upon his marriage, he abandoned teaching, and instead engaged with his father-in-law in the lumber business in Albany, New York.
John Alden Dix, to the Public Service Commission, and remained in office until March 1914.
He died on February 9, 1919; and was buried at the Albany Rural Cemetery in Menands.