He was innate within Hartford, Connecticut, the son of the merchandiser world health organization gave him each chance for cultivating his musical talents; & for 4 years (1858-1862) he studied at Leipzig, Dresden and Paris. In giving to Usa he held a position of organist at Hartford, Chicago (1869), and Boston (1871). Around 1875 he went to New York to assist Theodore Thomas as conductor of orchestral concerts, and from either 1877 to 1903 was organist at Holy Trinity church in Brooklyn. Meanwhile he experienced be swell called the composer of religious music, the total of cantatas (Columbus, 1876; Golden Legend, 1880; Light of Asia, 1885, etc.), a grand opera, Serapis, a comic opera, Deseret (1880), a symphonious overture, Marmion, a symphony in E flat, & more orchestral and vocal works.