Tuhia he haere tonu mo tenei whitianga - I muri i tana whiwhinga i tana tohu paetahi o nga toi, e rua nga tau a Donovan i te Kura Ture o Columbia, i reira ia he hoa akomanga o Franklin D. Roosevelt, me te ako i raro i a Harlan Fiske Stone. I te hokinga ki Buffalo, ka uru atu ia ki te umanga ture rongonui o Love & Keating i te 1909 ana, e rua tau i muri mai, ka whakatuwherahia e ia tana ake umanga Buffalo i te taha o tana hoa akomanga Columbia, a Bradley Goodyear. I te tau 1914, ka whakakotahihia to raatau umanga me tetahi atu, ka noho ko Goodyear & O'Brien. I te tau 1912, i awhina a Donovan ki te hanga, ka noho hei kaiarahi mo te ope hoia o te New York National Guard. I whakauruhia tenei roopu i te tau 1916 ka mahi i te rohe US-Mexico i te wa o te pakanga a te kawanatanga o Amerika ki a Pancho Villa
He aha? I ako ia i ngā rautaki hōia me ngā rautaki whawhai. I haere hoki ia ki nga akoranga whakaari i New York City mai i te whetu atamira o te ra, ko Eleanor Robson. I te tau 1914, i marenatia ia ki a Ruth Rumsey, he rangatira o Buffalo i haere ki Rosemary Hall.