Hamilton Wright Mabie

Due to business opportunities with the opening of the Erie Canal his family moved to Buffalo, New York when he was approaching school age.

He received honorary degrees from his own alma mater, from Union College, and from Western Reserve and Washington and Lee universities.

In the summer of 1879 he was hired to work at the weekly magazine, Christian Union (renamed The Outlook in 1893), an association that lasted until his death.

[3] In 1884, Mabie was promoted to associate editor of the Christian Union and then elected to the Author's Club, whose members included such men of established reputation as George Cary Eggleston, Richard Watson Gilder, Brander Matthews, and Edmund Clarence Stedman.

[3] In 1890, a small collection of Mabie's essays which reflected upon life, literature and nature were published as a volume entitled My Study Fire.