the barn, and clerked in a hardware store. He graduated from Danbury High School in 1892, Cornell College (in Mount Vernon, Iowa) in 1898, and from University of Iowa College of Law at Iowa City in 1899.
He worked as a clerk in a hardware store and graduated from Danbury High School in 1892, Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa, in 1898, and the University of Iowa Law College in Iowa City in 1899.