He attended the public schools, and graduated from City College of New York.
Then he became a saloon keeper, and later engaged in the real estate business.
He was Deputy Street Cleaning Commissioner of New York City in 1890.
He was a member of the New York State Senate (9th D.) in 1892 and 1893.
He died on February 20, 1893, at the Roosevelt Hospital in New York City, from "a complication of diseases" and after a laparotomy had been performed.