I started work in the fall of 1914 in the Nashawena Mills, New Bedford, Mass., where I worked in learning the manufacture of cotton cloth until the summer of 1916, when I left the mill and went into the offices of Clarence Whitman and Company, cotton goods converters, New York City, which position I left in turn, in the spring of 1917, to attend the Officers' Training Camp at Plattsburg.
Fortunate in being commissioned a 2d Lieutenant, I was more fortunately sent directly to France, where I attended the Field Artillery School at Saumur. Assigned, at the close of this course, in December, 1917, to the 101st Field Artillery of the 26th Division, I remained with that regiment until its return home for musterout in April, 1919, having attained in enviable moments positions as high as Chief of Platoon.
After a limited vacation, I became employed in November by the Wauregan and Quinebaug Companies, Providence, R. I., as junior clerk in the treasurer's office, where I have remained to date.5913