Born in Philadelphia. Read law and was admitted to the Philadelphia bar. He handled patent cases. Married Elizabeth Catherine with eight children.
In 1857 he was stricken with \"National Hotel disease,\" in a case of arsenic poisoning. He invented fuses used to good effect during the Civil War.
He patented Goloid, a mixture of gold, silver and copper, on May 22, 1877, and proposed it for U. S. coins. The Mint struck trial coins but rejected the proposal because it was difficult to tell the difference between Goloid and silver coins.
He died on his farm in Virginia.
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