Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Ya sauke karatu daga Jami'ar West Virginia a Morgantown, West Virginia, a 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 ne a Babban Taron Kasa na Jam'iyyar Democrat a 1912, 1920
da kuma 1924.