He was in charge of the 191st Combat Reconnaissance Squadron but by the time his training ended World War I was over.
After the war, he worked for Glenn Curtiss as a test pilot in Houston, Texas.
He later worked in the trucking industry, in the racing car business, in advertising and outdoor sign painting.
[2] While in Los Angeles, California, in 1926 he was a student at the Chouinard Art School.
He died at a nursing home in Oakland, California, on August 27, 1958.