 After the war he worked as a businessman, performed as a singer, and was published as a writer of prose and poetry while living in several states after leaving Massachusetts.He married twice and fathered three children.Long a seeker in religion, when he was nearly 50 he joined the Baháʼí Faith in 1894-5 –almost as soon as possible in America– and is commonly recognized as the first convert to the religion of the western world.