Abbott, Benjamin
clergyman, was born in 1732 on Long Island, N. Y. The story of his life has for a century been a typical one for the methodists, of which denomination he was an early apostle.
He died Aug. 14, 1796, in Salem, N. J.
ABBOTT, BENJAMIN VAUGHAN, lawyer, author, was born June 4, 1830, in Boston, Mass. He was a lawyer of New York city; and the author of Law Dictionary; Traveling Law School and Famous Trials; First Lessons in Government and Law; Patent Laws of All Nations; Year-Book of Jurisprudence for 1880; and Judge and Jury. He died Feb. 17, 1890, in Brooklyn, N. Y.