His early life was spent in the mercantile business under the firm name of Cook & Sayre, in Philadelphia. Later he removed td Columbia county, same state, and in the year 1828 located in Mauch Chunk. He was the surveyor and builder of the “back track” on Mount Pisgah, and of the Panther Creek Valley railroad. He entered the services of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company as boating clerk, having charge of the accounts and the collection of tolls due on boats navigating the canal. He removed from Mauch Chunk to South Bethlehem in 1862, and died there May 29, 1872. He was one of the founders of St. Mark's church at Mauch Chunk, and served as senior warden there until 1862, when lie removed to Bethlehem, where, with seven others, the Church of the Nativity was founded on May 6. 1862. He was elected senior warden, which position he held until his demise.

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