Registered for the draft on September 12, 1918, in Lisbon, Ransom County, North Dakota, where he lived at home with his parents on the family farm. He was described as of medium height and build with light brown eyes and black hair.
In the 1935/36 Fergus Falls city directory, he lived at 724 Railroad. He was a laborer for the Fergus Concrete Pipe and Lumber Co. He’s still a laborer and still living in the same place in the 1937/38 Fergus Falls city directory. Same in the 1939/40 Fergus Falls city directory.