He was born in January 1857 in Utica, Oneida County, New York.

He attended Hamilton College for a short time.

In 1902, he was the Republican candidate for Justice of the New York Supreme Court in the heavily Republican Fifth Judicial District, but was defeated in a landslide by Democrat Watson M. Rogers.

Even his party fellows had accused him of incompetence, and had favored the nomination of an independent candidate.

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