Registered for the draft on September 12, 1918, in Viroqua where he was a farmer. He gave W. F. Crook as his nearest relative. He was described as of medium height and build with blue eyes and light hair.
He and Christance lived in Kickapoo Twp in Vernon County in the 1920 census. They had no children at that time.
He and his family lived on a farm on the Viroqua to Readstown Road in the 1930 census.