Career
Following education at George Washington University and Virginia Theological Seminary he was ordained to the diaconate and priesthood in 1910. He served as chaplain at Woodberry Forest School, and then rector of Grace Church, Haddonfield, New Jersey. All Saints Church, Norristown, Pennsylvania.
Street John"s Church, Roanoke, Virginia.
And Saint Michael and Saint George"s Church, Saint Louis, Missouri. He was consecrated as coadjutor bishop of California by Edward Lambe Parsons, Benjamin Dunlap Dagwell on September 29, 1938.
