Under the management of these men the Monarch Engineering company had risen to become an important and prosperous concern and a vast amount of bridge construction, city paving, irrigation-dam building, and public building work has been done under their supervision.
Within ten years after the firm had been in operation, or since 1908, its activities constantly increased and in 1917 they purchased the Denver Steel and Iron Works in order to facilitate the material supply part of the construction work in which they were engaged.
He received his education in the public and high schools of Falls City and studied in the state university.
He returned to Falls City in 1900 and entered the employ of the John Gilligan Bridge company and remained with this concern until 1908.
He then established the Monarch Engineering Company, being joined by his brother, Guy A. Crook, in 1910.