At age 23 he was admitted to the bar, and moved to New Philadelphia, Ohio, where he had a legal practice, and where he lived the rest of his life.

[1] He established a practice with Joseph Medill, and they purchased the Coshocton Whig newspaper in 1849.

Medill soon after left they law partnership and took sole ownership of the paper, which he renamed the Coshocton Republican in 1855.

[1] At the 1870 Republican State Convention, he finally won nomination for Judge on the Ohio Supreme Court on the fifth ballot, and defeated his Democratic opponent Richard A. Harrison and a third party candidate.

She died February 6, 1918, in Elyria, and is buried at Ridgeview Cemetery in North Ridgeville.