Career
He was appointed by Theodore Roosevelt. He was born in 1876 in Bosque County, Texas. In 1882 his family moved to Nolan County, Texas and entered the cattle business.
In 1887 at age 11 he worked as a cowboy for the A-K-X Ranch and helped drive a large herd of cattle 500 miles to market at Englewood, Kansas.
In 1910 he was a United States Marshal for Oklahoma. He died in 1941 in Long Beach, California and was buried in Wichita Falls, Texas.