Career
He began his engineering career as assistant to John B. Jervis. In 1870, he removed to Syracuse, New York, and was Chief Engineer on the construction of the Syracuse and Chenango Valley Railroad of which he became Superintendent after the construction was finished. In 1872, he was elected a Canal Commissioner on the Republican ticket, and died a month before the end of his term.
He died of typhoid fever at the Syracuse House in Syracuse, New New York
