He graduated from high school in 1907 and went on to the Art Institute of Chicago until 1908 when he transferred to the Indiana University.
He was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity and in 1913 he graduated with an AB degree.
He married Katherine Porter Brown on August 12, 1916, and they had two children; one of whom was the writer Doris Herold Lund.
Perhaps one of his more famous works is a poem called "I'd Pick More Daisies" which was published in Reader's Digest in 1953.
[2] It was also known as "If I had My Life to Live over", which was translated to Spanish as "Instantes"[2] and misattributed to Jorge Luis Borges.