After the war he resumed study of the law and was admitted to the bar in 1866. Elected state senator on the Republican ticket in 1886, he resigned in 1888 upon his election as judge of circuit court of the 13th judicial district. He was re-elected circuit judge in 1891, and again in 1897, dying May 22, 1902, before the expiration of his term of office.
Born in Nottingham, England, in 1837, he came to America in 1848 and to Dixon in 1853. He was educated int he district and in the public schools of Dixon.
Dixon Telegraph Centennial Issue 1951
