 He joined his father's businesses as treasurer at Hopedale Machine Company and later at the Draper Company.He was President of the Grafton and Upton Railroad, and of the Harmony Mills; director in the Milford National Bank, First National Bank of Boston, Brogon Cotton Mills Company, of Anderson, North Carolina, and of the Calhoun Cotton Mills of Calhoun, North Carolina.He died on February 7, 1923.