Career
He learned the printer"s trade, and was a Minister of the Reformed Methodist Church. He also taught school in DeWitt, New New York They lived in High Bridge, a hamlet in the Town of Manlius.
He edited from 1840 to 1842 the Fayetteville Luminary and Reformed Methodist Iintelligencer (Methodist Reformer after September 23, 1841), from 1842 to 1849 the Liberty Press, the paper of the Liberty Party, and from 1849 to 1852 the Utica Teetotaller.
In September 1854, he was a delegate to the Temperance state convention which nominated Myron H. Clark for Governor. In 1855, he was nominated by the Republicans for Inspector of State Prisons but was defeated by the American Party candidate William A. Russell.
In 1856, he ran again and this time was elected, being in office from 1857 to 1859.