Education
He attended Phillips Academy, Andover and Dartmouth College (Bachelor, 1879, Department of Administration and Management, 1887) and later Syracuse University (Doctor of Philosophy, 1893), studying mathematics. He was professor of mathematics at the Dakota School of Mines from 1887 to 1890, then attended Clark University for a year before beginning teaching at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Work Personality Index) in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1891, where he taught for the remainder of his life.