Austin Abbott

Austin Abbott ( born December 18, 1831 in Boston, Massachusetts, † April 19, 1896 in New York City ) was an American lawyer and writer.

Life

Austin Abbott was the second son of the U.S. youth writer Jacob Abbott and his wife Harriet. He first went to school in Boston, then in Roxbury and Farmington, when he moved with his family one by one in these cities. In 1851 he graduated from New York University, which he had attended since 1847. Then he studied law, was admitted in 1852 in New York City as a lawyer and business now with his year and a half older brother Benjamin Vaughan law firm Abbott Brothers. His two younger brothers Lyman and Edward Abbott devoted primarily a spiritual career. 1854 Austin Abbott married to Ellen Louise Dummer Gilman.

In addition to belonging to the early phase of his literary work composed of two novels, the tall and slim built Austin Abbott wrote a prolific author in the 1850s and 1860s, together with his brother Benjamin Vaughan jurisprudential textbooks and reports. He was then employed in addition to being very renowned lawyer. In 1865, he helped the commissioners entrusted with drawing up the Code of the State of New York. After his brother's departure, he ran the firm on alone.

In the 1870s, Austin Abbott began the pursued musical interests also like playing the organ, with the independent creation of legal works, some of which experienced a wide circulation. He appeared in many important processes, and in 1875 earned a nationwide reputation for his successful defense of the Congregationalist preacher Henry Ward Beecher, who had been accused by his former friend Theodore Tilton of adultery with his wife Elizabeth Tilton. 1881 functioned since 1879 married the second wife, Anna Rowe Worth lawyer as a government consultant in the trial of Charles J. Guiteau for the assassination of U.S. President James A. Garfield. In 1891 he became a professor and dean of the Faculty of Law, New York University and made this for functions including installation berufsorientierterer elements in the curricula. He died in 1896 at the age of 64 years.

Works

Austin Abbott wrote together with his brothers Benjamin Vaughan and Lyman Abbott following published under the pseudonym Benauly novels:

• Cone Cut Corners; The Experiences of a Conservative Family in Fanatical Times, 1855
• Matthew Caraby, 1859

At Abbott's legal writings include:

• Reports of Practice Cases Determined in the Courts of the State of New York, Volume 1, 1855 ( with his brother Benjamin Vaughan Abbott)
• Reports of Decisions of the Court of Appeals of New York, 1850-1869, 4 volumes., 1873-1874
• Abbott 's Digest of New York Statutes and Reports, new edition in 6 volumes, 1873, and 1896 extended to 8 Ergänzungsbände
• New Cases, Courts of the State of New York, 31 volumes, 1876-1894
• Official Report of the Trial of Henry Ward Beecher, 2 volumes, 1875
• Trial Evidence, The Rules of Evidence Applicable on the Trials of Civil Actions, 1880
• Letter for the Trial of Civil Issues before a jury, 1885
• The Principles and Forms of Practice in Civil Actions, 2 volumes, 1887 to 1888
• Letter for the Trial of Criminal Cases, 1889
• Letter on the Mode of Proving the Facts most Frequently in Issue or Collaterally in Questions on the Trial of Civil or Criminal Cases, 1891
• Letter for the argument of Questions Arising upon the pleadings on the Trial of Issues of Law or Fact in Civil Actions, 1891
• Select Cases on Code Pleading, 1893