[2] He studied at the Pomona College Preparatory School in Claremont, California,[3][4] and later at Stanford University.

[3][4][5][6][7][8] During his tenure, he appointed Will Rogers as honorary mayor, garnering worldwide publicity for Beverly Hills.

[2] In 1912, after Canfield's death, they moved into Grayhall, an estate located at 1100 Carolyn Way, formerly built by Carole Lombard's father as a hunting lodge and later owned by George Hamilton and Bernard Cornfeld.

[5][9][10][11][12] From 1918 to 1921, they lived in the Frank Flint Estate, a Colonial Revival-style mansion resembling a Southern plantation located at 1006 North Crescent Drive.

[9] He later purchased the Tecolote Ranch in Goleta, California, where he raised purebred cattle and horses, and grew walnut and citrus trees.