His grandfather was the only sheriff of Platte County, Missouri ever to be killed (in 1900) while on duty.
[1] He married Frances Thompson, a daughter of a founder of the American Royal, in 1935.
During his tenure he started the Golden Ox Restaurant in the stockyards the Livestock Exchange Building which developed fame for the Kansas City strip steak.
He also dealt with the Great Flood of 1951 that destroyed the stockyards from which it never fully recovered.
He worked the Kansas City office of the United States Army Corps of Engineers to build a series of reservoirs in Missouri and Kansas including Smithville Lake Dillingham donated stockyards land to the American Royal and for Kemper Arena.