Composer, songwriter ("Drifting and Dreaming"), author, cellist and
publisher, educated in local public schools and in private music study.
He was a cellist in the Toledo (Ohio) Symphony Orchestra and also in
bands, then organized and directed several string ensembles and vocal
quartets, and later became a publisher. Joining ASCAP in 1925, his
other popular-song compositions include "Bo-Peep", "Heartaches and
Dreams", "Just One More Chance", "Roses or Remembrance", "Arcady", "In
Springtime", "Mary Jane", "Rose o' the Morn", and "What Is
Love?".
