Few men have seen a more busy, active life; he grew to manhood on the farm; was educated in the public schools; read law and was admitted to the bar in Waldo County and practiced in the courts nearly two years, making a fine record, but his health failed and doctors said he must quit, so he took up manufacturing, which came naturally to him, and was easy; and he advanced from charge of work to charge of Old Colony Mills, Chiltonville, Massachussetts; and from there went to Nova Scotia, and started the first duck mill in Canada; retiring from there, he went to Barring, Georgia, and started a hosiery yarn mill, “The Hutchinson Manufacturing Company”, General Arthur Hutchinson, president, who was quaartermaster general under Joseph E. Johnston; retiring from this, and wishing a change for his health, he entered the employ of C. I. (Sasparilla) Hood, as traveling man, and remained with him nearly twenty years, traveling about thirty thousand miles a year, and since leaving Hood has been connected with daily newspapers.53