He was born on February 23, 1876, in
Waterloo, New York. He had a short career in baseball for one of the Rochester teams. He attended Waterloo Academy, then
Cornell University. He received his
M.D. from
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1899. He became the
ambulance physician at
Bellevue Hospital. He took a job at
Eastern District Reformatory and in 1901 he was appointed as the medical superintendent of the
Elmira Correctional Facility. He was appointed as the warden of Elmira in 1917. He retired after being stabbed in his car by two prisoners attempting an escape in 1939. He died on October 20, 1955, at the Arnot-Ogden Hospital in
Elmira, New York. He was buried in
Woodlawn Cemetery. ==Footnotes==