He attended Corning Free Academy, Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and Columbia College.

from New York Law School, was admitted to the bar, and practiced in Corning.

Afterwards he was General Counsel of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in New York City.

He was also active in the Episcopal Church, serving as president of the Deputies of the Synod in New York and New Jersey.

He died on August 22, 1930, while riding in an automobile from his home in Locust Valley, Nassau County, New York, to New York City; and was buried at the Locust Valley Cemetery.