Benjamin Vaughan Abbott

1830–1890 (age 60)

lawyer and legal writer

Biography

Benjamin Vaughan Abbott earned renown as a lawyer and legal writer whose treatises served as standard references during the post-Civil War era, guiding countless practitioners with clarity and rigor.

He lies at Green-Wood Cemetery, a place of peace fitting for a man whose work sought to bring steadiness to the law.

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