[1] He attended Bowdoin College starting in 1866, but dropped out because of lack of funds.
For most of his career he was under contract to The Youth's Companion and, for a time, was their most popular and prolific contributor.
[2] Stephens himself estimated that he had written 3,000 short stories.
[2] The Youth's Companion put him through medical school so that they could have a staff physician to write scientific articles; he earned his M.D.
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