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Curtis, Benjamin Robbins

lawyer, legislator, jurist, author, was born Nov. 4, 1809, in Watertown, Mass. He settled in Boston in 1834; and served two years in the state legislature. In 1851 he was appointed a justice of the supreme court of the United States, which position he resigned in 1857. In March, 1868, he acted as one of the counsel for President Andrew Johnson, before the high court of impeachment. He was the author of Reports of Cases in the Circuit Courts of the United States; United States Supreme Court Decisions; and Digest and Decisions of United States Supreme Court.

He died Sept. 15, 1874, in Newport, R. I.