Immediately after graduating, he became Principal of the Academy of North Middleborough, Massachusetts, which position he occupied for one year. In the Fall of 1865, he resigned and accepted a similar situation at Kingston, New Hampshire, where he remained until the Spring of 1866.

He commenced the study of law in 1860, reading in the office of William Stark, Esq., at Manchester, New Hampshire, and pursued it for several years before he entered college, so that he was fully qualified and admitted to the bar of New Hampshire, at Manchester, in August, 1865. He began the active practice of his profession at Providence, Rhode Island, being admitted to the bar of Rhode Island in the Spring of 1866. He remained there until June, 1869, when he went to Germany and attended lectures on civil law at the University of Bonn. After one year's absence, he returned to Providence, in the Summer of 1870, but continued in practice there only until December, 1870, when he removed to New York City, and was immediately admitted to the bar of New York. In May, 1873, he formed a copartnership with D. M. Porter, Esq., and practised for several years as the junior member of the firm of Porter & Gould. In May, 1876, the partnership was dissolved, and he has continued in practice alone up to the present time. He has had a large and successful business, and has traveled extensively through the country in the interests of his clients, having made several trips across the continent.

In his religious preference, he is a Baptist; and in politics, an Independent Republican.

Being strictly wedded to his profession, he has never taken unto himself a wife.
  

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