Resident of Grosse Pointe, Michigan. Married with a son. Employed as chief draftsman for the Michigan Consolidated Gas Company.

He organized and served as first president of the Michigan State Numismatic Society in 1956 and the Gross Pointe Numismatic Society in 1959. He received the ANA Medal of Merit in 1957. He served as president of TAMS 1962 to 1963. He was honored by TAMS with a medal struck by the Medallic Art Company. Unaware of his death, the ANA voted on March 8 to award him the Glenn Smedley Award.

He contributed many articles to The Numismatist. Author of Indian and Post Trader Tokens: Our Frontier Coinage in 1962. Author of Military Tokens of the United States 1866 - 1969 in 1970. Author of Military Tokens of the United States 1866-1978, Book II issued in 1979. obit: CW 3/29/1993; NN 3/30/1993; NUM 106 May 93 p. 686 DOB:SSDI