[1][2] He served as principal of the Webster Academy and Spring Valley High School.

He then attended Columbia Law School, and was admitted to the bar in 1890.

[1][2] Around 1901 Mayor Seth Low appointed him to the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation where he served for two years as president of the commission.

Others appointed by the Woodrow Wilson administration were U.S. Secretary of the Interior Franklin Knight Lane, Charles Caldwell McChord of the Interstate Commerce Commission and D.C. chief justice J. Harry Covington.

[8] He died on April 9, 1940, a Southside Hospital in Bayshore, New York.