Career

Farmer; Saginaw County Register of Deeds, 1913-1917. German ancestry

He was one of those killed in the Kerns Hotel fire in Lansing on December 11, 1934. Also killed were state representatives Charles Doctorate. Parker, Vern Voorhees, T. Henry Howlett, John West. Goodwine, Doctorate. Knox Hanna, and Don East. Sias.

The men were in Lansing for a special session of the Michigan legislature.