Between 1911 and 1913 he served as headmaster of the Baguio School for American Boys in the Philippines.
Later he studied at Trinity College, Cambridge in England and then the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Massachusetts from where he graduated with a Bachelor of Divinity in 1916.
In 1921 he became rector of Grace Church in Lawrence, Massachusetts, while in 1925 he transferred to Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania, to become rector of St Paul's Church where he remained until 1938.
In 1938 he was elected Coadjutor Bishop of Central New York and was consecrated on September 29 by Presiding Bishop Henry St. George Tucker.
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