 In 1903, he and his family moved to the Philippines, where he worked as a Systematic Botanist for the Bureau of Science.In 1909, he founded the University of the Philippines College of Agriculture at Los Baños, Laguna, now part of the University of the Philippines Los Baños, and served as its dean and also as a professor of plant physiology for eight years (1909–1917).In 1917, he returned to the United States and was a leading rice grower in Chico, California.