Abbey, Henry
journalist, poet, was born July 11, 1842, in Rondout, N. Y. He studied at Kingston Academy and at the Hudson River Institute in Columbia county. His first collection of poems, entitled May Dreams, was published in 1862. many years he was engaged in journalism in New York city, where he is also connected with several financial institutions.
He is the author of Ballads of Good Deeds; The City of Success; May Dreams; Ralph and Other Poems; Stories in Verse; and The Poems of Henry Abbey. The poem Ralph is considered one of his best.