He was born on June 17, 1889, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. and received his elementary education in St. Paul's parochial school of his native city. He then went to Cambridge High School and to St. Patrick's (later Aquinas) High Columbus, Ohio. He entered the Order at St. Joseph's Priory, Somerset, Ohio, in September 1912 and made profession there on September 18, 1913. He made his studies in the Dominican House of Studies Washington D.C., where he was ordained on May 10, 1918. He completed complementary studies in the Catholic University of America in 1920.

His priestly assignments included Providence College (1920-1923); the Eastern Mission Band (1923-1927) with residence first at St. Vincent Ferrer's, New York City, then at Holy Name, Philadelphia, pastor and superior at St. Dominic's in Denver, Colorado (1927- 1933); prior and pastor at St. Dominic's, Washington (1933-1936), prior and pastor at St. Loui Bertrand's, Louisville, Kentucky (1936-1939), assistant in St. Dominic' Church, Detroit, Michigan. and in the following year he became affiliated to the newly erected Province of St. Albert the Great. and was appointed Head of the Mission with residence at Holy Rosary. Minneapolis, Minnesota. In 1948 he became Head of the Southern Mission Band, taking up residence at Holy Rosary, Houston Texas.

When the health of this well-known and distinguished missionary began to fail, he was in 1959 transferred to St. Anthony's, New Orleans, Louisiana, where, despite a painful arthritic condition he assisted in the parish and was faithful in the fulfillment of choral and conventual obligation. He died in the Hotel Dieu Hospital on March 3, 1967 and was interred in the community cemetery of St. Peter Martyr, Winona Minnesota.