Background
He was born in Portsmouth, Virginia and trained as a naval architect.
He was born in Portsmouth, Virginia and trained as a naval architect.
He received a degree in engineering from the University of Virginia at age 15. During the Civil War he served as a captain in the engineers corps, under General George Pickett of the Confederate States Army. After the war, he traveled to South America and served in the Chilean Navy.
He returned to the United States and practiced architecture in Saint Louis, Missouri before coming to Baltimore about 1868.
He became an American Institute of Architects fellow in 1905. He is buried in his family’s lot in Cedar Grove Cemetery, Portsmouth, Virginia.
He was a founding member of the Baltimore Chapter of the American Institute of Architects in 1870.