In 1899 he played "Si Kidder" in the play "Cast Up the Waves" at the Dietz Opera House in Oakland, California. 45 years later, at an Old Time Vaudeville and Dramatic Artist banquet, he met Alma Ferris, who as a young girl had played "Little Nellie, A Waif of the Ocean" in the same production all those years earlier. They married shortly thereafter.