He was born in Odessa, Canada West on 18 September 1863.
He studied mathematics at the University of Toronto under Henry Taber from 1886, graduating in 1888 and then continuing as a postgraduate.
In 1895 he was appointed professor of mathematics at Syracuse University, then became dean of the graduate school.
His proposers were David Henry Marshall, Robert Wenley, John George Adami, and James Douglas Hamilton Dickson.
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