[1][2] He attended the public schools of Granville, New York and later on graduated in 1906 from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,[1] Troy NY.
[2] In 1925, he published The Story of the New York State Canals: Historical and Commercial Information.
[8] In 1926, Democratic governor Al Smith undertook a major re-organisation of the State administration and the Engineer and Surveyor's Department was abolished, and the duties taken over by the New York State Department of Public Works.
In 1929 he was awarded the Arthur M. Wellington prize for his pamphlet on the Story of the New York State Barge Canal and Its Operation.
[10] In November 1950 he was appointed, as the RPI Board of Trustees representative, to "The RPI Athletic Council," a ten-man council created in recognition of the important part played by athletics in the training of the well-rounded engineer.,[11] Troy, New York He died on March 4, 1959, in Albany, New York.