After he attended school in Europe (his obituary says Germany, but his passport application said Zurich, Switzerland), he set up as a dentist in Terre Haute.

[3] Beginning November 1, 1909, Dok created a daily cartoon to accompany The Weather,[4] which featured a character who came to be known as the Umbrella Man, or "Sport".

In the newspaper on May 3, 1913, the weather comic was called The Umbrella Man, in a front–page box naming the paper's features.

The two wandered the streets of Seattle in the comic, dispensing wit and wisdom along with weather forecasts.

[6] In the early strip, the unnamed duck stood around on the street corner picking fights with whomever passed by.

[6] Doc's duck became a traveler during World War I and the cartoons show him interacting with both sides of the conflict.

[10] Dok had to discontinue his illustrating when his eyes went, and his children ran the Waddles comic strip.