He was a noted professor and literary editor, scholar, critic, and novelist.
He married Esther Paulus on June 22, 1915, and had two children, John Joseph and James Oliver.
Esther died in 1954 and he married Lucy Gertrude Paulus in the early 1960s.
[1] An interesting note-his granddaughter currently resides in the house near Glennie with her husband and her two sons.
In 1962 at his retirement, he received an honorary Doctor of Literature from the University of Notre Dame.