He engaged in wheat farming in Eastern Oregon's Umatilla County beginning in 1922.

He resumed farming until 1959, while a member of the Theodore Roosevelt Centennial Commission between 1956 and 1959.

He became the vice president of Oregon Fiber Products, Inc. and the treasurer of Pilot Rock Lumber Company.

He moved to Bellevue, Washington in 1959 and operated a trailer court until his death August 9, 1962.

[1] He was married in 1924 to Dorcas Conklin and the couple had two daughters and one son.