Ka cika wannan magana: Ya sauke karatu daga Jami'ar West Virginia a Morgantown, West Virginia, a shekara ta 1895. Ya yi karatun doka, an shigar da shi zuwa bar a 1896 kuma ya fara aiki a Uniontown, Pennsylvania. Ya yi aiki a matsayin memba na Majalisar Wakilai ta Jihar Pennsylvania a 1906 kuma ya kasance wakili a Babban Taron Kasa na Demokradiyya a 1912,
1920 da kuma 1924.