He was graduated from Chicago (Illinois) Manual Training School in 1902 and from the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1906.

During the First World War served as a captain and was promoted to major in the 342nd Infantry, 86th Division from 1917 to 1919.

After the war, he resumed the practice of law at Chicago, Illinois and engaged as an investment banker in 1921.

He was an hereditary companion of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States.

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