He moved to Batavia, Illinois in 1904 with his family where his father established his practice as a dentist.
He became a professor in the Crown and Bridge Department of the dental school at UIC for the next four years.
He worked on the "Cephalometric Appraisal of Treated Result and Variations in Facial Relationships: Their Significance in Treatment and Prognosis.
This paper won him first prize from the American Association of Orthodontists in 1948, and it led to the first cephalometric analysis in the field of orthodontics.
[1] He was a member of the Chicago Association of Orthodontists and Tweed Foundation, and an officer of the Midwestern Component of the Edward Angle Society of Orthodontia.