The New International Encyclopædia/Abbott, Benjamin Vaughan

ABBOTT, Benjamin Vaughan (1830-90). An American lawyer, the son of Jacob Abbott. He graduated at the University of the City of New York in 1850, and was admitted to the bar in 1852. In legal practice his brothers Austin and Lyman were associated with him. He produced nearly 100 vohunes of reports and digests of Federal and State laws. In 1865, as secretary of the New York Code Commission, he drafted a penal code which, when adopted by the Legislature, became the basis of the present code. In 1870 President Grant appointed him one of three commissioners to revise the statutes of the United States.