After graduating from Andover Theological Seminary, he was ordained in 1881 and served at the following churches: •
Ellsworth Congregational Church,
Ellsworth, Maine (1881-1884) •
Central Congregational Church,
Providence, Rhode Island (1884-1888) • High Street Congregational Church,
Lowell, Massachusetts (1888-1905) • Central Congregational Church,
Toledo, Ohio (1905-1914) After retiring, he led services at churches in
Newton,
Waltham, and
Boston,
Massachusetts. After serving at First Congregational Church in Waltham, he served as an acting minister in
Claremont, California, in 1915. In 1919, he was involved in the
Unitarian Church. In 1894, he compiled a book,
The Warren-Clarke Genealogy: A Record of Persons related within the Sixth Degree to the Children of Samuel Dennis Warren and Susan Cornelia Clarke. He received a D.D. degree from Williams College in 1901. He was a trustee at the
Bradford Academy in
Bradford, Massachusetts, for ten years. In 1933, he preached the chapel sermon at the 100th Anniversary of the
Kappa Alpha Society, at
Williams College. ==Family life==