"...was educated in the public schools of Indiana borough, Greeley normal school and the Indiana State normal school. At the age of seventeen he taught the Ferguson school in White Township, Indiana County, with marked success. He was employed for two years surveying for the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railroad Company, and resigned to accept a position as bookkeeper in the Citizens' National Bank of Indiana, Pa., which position he held for one year when he was elected as the cashier of the Bolivar National Bank, and in May, 1913, was elected cashier of the Merchants' & Miners' Deposit Bank of Portage, Pa., at a salary of $1,500."
--Joshua Stewart, "Indiana County, Pennsylvania, Her People, Past and Present," 1913.