He attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, in 1914 and he graduated in 1918 from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut where he was a member of Skull and Bones[3] and captain of the wrestling team.

In World War I, he served as captain of Battery F, Three Hundred and Thirty-eighth Field Artillery for the United States.

She was born at Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska on September 23, 1896, the daughter of Dr. Ralph Wardlaw Connell[4] and Katherine E Walsh.

Her first cousin, Dr. Karl Albert Connell, invented the gas mask used by American troops during World War I.

He was discharged as a colonel on October 25, 1945, resuming law practice with offices in New York City and Washington, D.C.