Proprietor of Chesebrough's Stand at 4th and commercial, grocer and provisioner for westward expansion.
Councilman of the city of Atchison.
1862 Union party candidate for Mayor of Atchison against Milton R. Benton.
Candidate for Presidential Elector (R-KS), nominated at the state convention on 9/8/1864, but died before the election. Some Kansas voters cast ballots for him using early printed ballots, and he appears in the Congressional Quarterly list of candidates for President in 1864.