[1][3][2] He received education from public schools of the Lawrence and Marion counties.

He then graduated from the University of Kentucky medical program in 1893.

[1] He was elected to the Mississippi State Senate in 1900, representing the state's 2nd District, which consisted of Mississippi's Wayne, Jones, Perry, and Greene counties.

They had three children, Edith, Zellein, and Allen Augustus.

[1] He died on August 15, 1948, in Saint Louis, Missouri.