 From 1910 until 1911 he worked in the beater room of the Fort Orange Paper Company in Castleton-on-Hudson, New York.In 1911 he moved to Springfield, Illinois to work in the production of steam engines at A. L. Ide Engine Company, where he stayed until 1913.That same year he moved to his final residence in Chattanooga, Tennessee, to work for the Chattanooga Railway, Light & Power Co as a power salesman.