Berry, Abraham J
physician, was born in 1799 in New York city. At the time of the desolation of New York by Asiatic cholera in 1832, he was among the few that remained at the post of duty.
For more than a century a considerable part of Williamsburg, now Brooklyn, had belonged to his family. He identified himself with the interests of the place when it was made a city, and became its first mayor. He also assisted very materially in the establishment of the important ferries connecting with New York. In 1861 Dr. Berry, although over sixty years of age, went out as surgeon of the thirty-eighth New York infantry.
He died Oct. 22, 1865, in Brooklyn, N. Y.