In the 1910 municipal election he ran for alderman on the Edmonton City Council, but finished tenth of eleven candidates.

[8] In a draft registration card completed at the time of World War I, May indicated that he was living on Park Avenue in Fairview, Bergen County, New Jersey, and working as a salesman for the Triumph Lamp Co., and a special reporter for a newspaper called the Dispatch.

[9] At the time of the 1920 United States Census, he was living on Third Street in Fairview Borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, and working as a newspaper reporter.

[10] At the time of the 1930 United States Census, he was working as a newspaper journalist and living in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey, with his wife, Florence, and their sons, Gilbert, Gustave and George.

[11] At the start of World War II in 1942, May was living with his son, Joseph May, at 184 Teaneck Road in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey.