sentences:  He engaged in the lumber business and moved to West Virginia in 1870, he left the lumber business in 1874.He served as mayor of Charleston, West Virginia from 1884 to 1888 but declined a renomination.He won election from West Virginia's 3rd District in 1894 as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1895 – March 3, 1897).