Practiced medicine for 27 years, and instrumental in setting up telephone services in the Wakefield area.

Listed in 1901 census with wife and kids in Wakefield & Denholm,Wright District, PQ. He is listed as an ‘M. Doctor’ (medical doctor). Along with his family, Mary Shouldice (born Mar. 29, 1851) is listed as a sister living with them (Han’s sister-in-law, then?), as well as a domestic female named Angel Philops, born Jul 17, 1861.

Listed in 1911 census for Wakefield, Wright District. At the time, his wife, daughters Besey, Marie, Ruth, Madline; son Call, sister Mrs. James Shandler, and his assistant H.J. Geggie (Harold, born Oct. 1887; who was to be his son-in-law and eventual replacement as doctor for his practice) were living at the household.