Samuel Nicoll Benjamin, USMA 1861

 

Born:    January 3, 1839, New York City.

Died:   May 15, 1886, Governor's Island, New York Harbor, age 47.

 

Genealogy:

Great grandson of LT John Benjamin, of the Revolution. Grandson of Aaron Benjamin, Captain in the Revolution and Lieutenant-Colonel in the War of 1812.

Married, Julia K. Fish, a daughter of Hamilton Fish. They had two children, a daughter who married Major A. R. Arnold, and a son, Julian Arnold Benjamin, USMA 1900 (#3974).

References:

AR 1886 by Wm. D. Whipple.

Cullum,

Mary Elizabeth Sergent, They Lie Forgotten. The United States Military Academy 1856-1861, Together with a Class Album for the Class of May, 1861.

Archives:

S. N. Benjamin, Papers, 1856-1886. USMA Archives, 158 items.