Howard Roger Garis graduated from Binghamton High School and attended Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey. From 1896 to 1947, Mr. Garis was a reporter and special writer for the Newark, New Jersey "Evening News." His Uncle Wiggily stories first appeared in the "News" in 1910, were syndicated in 1915, and continued to be published for more than forty years, at one time appearing in one hundred newspapers.