The year following graduation, he taught Latin and Greek in the Educational Institute at Ogdensburg, New York. In September, 1865, he became Principal of the Grammar School at Toledo, Ohio. In 1866 he went to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and engaged in the insurance business, remaining there until the Spring of 1870. He then located at Titusville, Pennsylvania, in the real-estate and general insurance business.

In the latter part of 1874, he returned to Pittsburg, and became Manager of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia, which position he still occupies.

By long experience, an extensive acquaintance, and close attention to business, he has built up one of the largest agencies of the company.

His residence is in Sewickley, Pennsylvania, one of the beautiful suburbs of Pittsburg, twelve miles down the Ohio river.

His religious preference is indicated by the fact that he is a member of the First Presbyterian church of Sewickley. In politics, he is a Republican.

He was married December 25, 1871, to Miss Mary Laughlin Rea, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. They have one child, Elisabeth Rea, born February 17, 1874.

Source:  "Memorialia of the Class of '64 in Dartmouth College" complied by John C. Webster, Shepard & Johnston, Printers, 1884, Chicago