Career
He was President pro tempore of the New York State Senate in 1895. After the death of his father in 1862, he began to work at a railroad blacksmith shop, and studied at Little Falls Academy and Delhi Academy from where he graduated in 1868. Then he studied law in the office of Judge Rollin H. Smith in Little Falls, was admitted to the bar in 1870 in Oswego, New York.
In 1873, he removed to Binghamton. From 1880 on, he was a trustee of the Binghamton State Asylum.
