Immediately after graduating, in August, 1864, he entered the service of his country as paymaster's clerk for Major Israel O. Dewey, of Hanover, New Hampshire. In the discharge of his duties, he was stationed at Hilton Head and Beaufort, South Carolina, remaining there until he was compelled by sickness to return home in January, 1865. After about three months spent in recuperating, he went, in April, 1865, to Manchester, New Hampshire, and began the study of law in the office of Morrison, Stanley & Clark. He was admitted to the bar of New Hampshire in September, 1867,  at Nashua, New Hampshire. In October, 1868, he was admitted to practice in the United States District Court at Manchester, New Hampshire. He began the practice of his profession immediately, with the firm of Morrison, Stanley & Clark, and continued with them until October, 1869, when he went to Boston, Massachusetts, and was admitted to the bar of Suffolk County, Massachusetts. He remained in practice at Boston until January, 1871, when he was taken sick and returned to his old home at Lyman, New Hampshire. He did not resume his practice until April, 1874, at which time he went to Littleton, New Hampshire, and formed a copartnership with Hon. Charles Rand, which existed until the death of Mr. Rand, in August, 1874, after which he continued alone in practice. In the Spring of 1875, he was chosen Justice of the Police Court at Littleton, and held that position until January, 1877, when he removed to Lisbon, New Hampshire, where he has continued in the practice of law up to the present time.

He gives his religious preferences as Orthodox; in politics, he is a Republican.

He was married January 14, 1875, to Miss Augusta L. Stevens, of Haverhill, New Hampshire.

They have had four children: Grove H., born October 21, 1875; Helen P., born April 11, 1877; Johnnie L., born September 5, 1878; Ray Stevens, born October 5, 1880.  

Johnnie L. died October 24, 1881.

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