My Study Fire. By: Hamilton Wright Mabie (FIRST SERIES): Hamilton Wright Mabie(December 13, 1846 - December 31, 1916) was an American essayist, editor, critic, and lecturer.

Hamilton Wright Mabie (December 13, 1846 - December 31, 1916) was an American essayist, editor, critic, and lecturer. *Biography* He was born at Cold Spring, N. Y. in 1846. Mabie 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...