He also was a vice-president of Third National Bank of Cincinnati; assistant city solicitor of Cincinnati; judge of Superior Court; treasurer of the board of Trustees of the Mount Auburn Presbyterian Church; and vice-president, secretary and treasurer of Cincinnati's Yale Club.
He was commissioned as a Major in the Judge Advocate General's Department, Officers' Reserve Corps, on July 18, 1917 and assigned to the Headquarters of the Central Department at Chicago on August 1.