 He served overseas with Company D, One Hundred and Tenth Infantry, Twenty-eighth Division, from May 3, 1918, to May 6, 1919, and was awarded the Purple Heart.He was a student at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, in 1920 and 1921 and Penn State College in 1921.He graduated from the law school of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in 1924.