He worked in the US Department of Agriculture on pest management in cotton before becoming a professor.
He published two textbooks in entomology and wrote several books on rural sociology.
He then worked as an assistant state entomologist at Maryland Agricultural College, followed by a position as professor of entomology at Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College.
[1] He served as the 32nd president of the American Sociological Society.
[2][3] He died in his Ithaca, New York home on September 27, 1944.