Benjamin Kissam

Benjamin Kissam

infobox person
name=Benjamin P. Kissam


caption = Portrait of Benjamin Kissam by John Singer Sargent
death_date = 24 March 1808
death_place =
birth_date =2 August 1753
birth_place = New York
occupation = Lawyer and financier
nationality = flag|United States
spouse =Lucy H. Warren

Benjamin P. Kissam (2 August 1753 - 24 March 1808)Cite Web|url=http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bkroll/fam00471.htm|title=Benjamin Kissam|date=2000-08-12|accessdate=2008-08-26] was a financier and banker in New York, who was a partner in the Kissam and Whitney law company.Kissam is known for teaching John Jay in law after his graduation.

Life

Benjamin was born in New York on 2 August 1753 to Samuel and Margaret Kissam. He had a brother, Samuel H. Kissam, and a sister, Maria Louise Vanderbilt. [Cite Web|url=http://www.kissamfamily.org/id16.html|title=Kissam Family Collection - Paintings, Portraits, & Photographs|accessdate=2008-08-26] He married Lucy H. Warren later on 20 December 1773.

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