 Among his students was Mary Moore.During the time he was sculpting and teaching, he raised and educated a family of five children while surviving the Great Depression and two World Wars.He supported his studio on Tavern Road a block from the museum, a colonial home for his family in Concord, Massachusetts, a cottage on North Haven Island in Maine and a country cabin and later a home in Rumney, New Hampshire where he retired after selling his studio in 1954.