sentences:  He served as clerk of Orange County 1864-1867 and resided in Goshen, New York.He returned to Middletown and became proprietor of the Orange County Press in 1868 and was also one of the proprietors and editors of the Middletown Daily Press.He was appointed by President Grant as United States collector of internal revenue for the eleventh district of New York in 1869 and served until 1883.