Hamilton Wright Mabie, A.M., L.H.D., LL.D. (December 13, 1846 – December 31, 1916) was an American
essayist, editor, critic, and lecturer.[1]
Biography
Hamilton Wright Mabie was born at
Cold Spring, New York on December 13, 1846.[2] He was the youngest child of Sarah Colwell Mabie who was from a wealthy
Scottish-
English family and Levi Jeremiah Mabie, whose ancestors were
Scots-
Dutch. They were early immigrants to New Amsterdam, New Netherland about 1647. Due to business opportunities with the opening of the
Erie Canal his family moved to
Buffalo, New York when he was approaching school age. At the young age of 16 he passed his
college entrance examination, but waited a year before he attended
Williams College (1867) and the
Columbia Law School (1869).[3]
He received honorary degrees from his own
alma mater, from
Union College, and from
Western Reserve and
Washington and Lee universities. Although he passed his bar exams in 1869 he hated both the study and practice of law. In 1876 he married Jeanette Trivett. 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]
^"Death Summons for Noted Editor". Allentown Democrat. Summit, New Jersey. International News Service. December 31, 1916. p. 1. Retrieved May 10, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
^Compiled from
WorldCat library records as summarized in search report (au:mabie; ti:"every child should know") generated September 19, 2019, this list may contain a mix of copyright and publication years.
^Volume titles vary. For instance, Heroines was originally published with front cover title Heroines Every Child Should Know ("That" omitted) and with a long subtitle on the title page: Heroines That Every Child Should Know: Tales for Young People of the World's Heroines of All Ages. Viewed as Project Gutenberg Ebook #35994 (below).
^Heroines That Every Child Should Know, ed. Hamilton Wright Mabie and Kate Stephens, illus. Blanche Ostertag (Doubleday, Page & Co., February 1908).
Ebook #35994 at
Project Gutenberg (viewed in HTML format) contains images of the full cover and frontispiece, and a transcript of the title leaf that represents the original layout. Spine displays "The ECSK Library". Retrieved September 19, 2019.