Career
He started working with the G&C Merriam Company of Springfield, Master of Arts. In Chicago he established a magazine called Steam — soon sold and incorporated into Power — then moved to New New York He wrote (or commissioned and published under his own name) many of the popular Audel"s Guides popular with engineers and craftsmen and published by Theodore Audel & Company of New New York He sometimes used the pseudonym William Rogers (a likely reference to Roger Williams).
The content of his books published prior to 1923 is now in the Public Domain.