Educated first at Saint Paul's School and then at Yale College (B.A. 1896), he served briefly in the U.S. Navy, where he first felt the symptoms of the crippling arthritis that later made him a complete invalid. By 1897 he became a member of the New York Stock Exchange and joined his father's brokerage house. When his arthritis became more severe, he ran a glove business from his apartment and speculated in the stock market. He married Katherine Briggs Dodge in 1928.
Throughout his life, he was active in the realm of publishing, editing two volumes of F. M. Colby's essays, writing an introduction to an edition of W. S. Gilbert's The Mikado, writing book reviews for Metropolitan Magazine, and drawing illustrations for the works of other writers. In addition, his own essays, verses, stories, and illustrations appeared in such magazines as Harper's, the New Yorker, the New York Sunday American, and the New Republic, as well as in separately published collections of his work. Nonetheless, his primary source of income came from his work on Wall Street. Like many of his colleagues he was adversely affected by the crash of 1929 and was compelled to move from his attractive, old-fashioned apartment on Riverside Drive to a less well furnished one.
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