Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 25.
Reverend J. William Jones, Ed.

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His English practice.

It was estimated that Mr. Benjamin enjoyed an income of $75,000 a year from his English practice, and at his death he left a fortune of $300,000 to two relatives in New Orleans. He died in Paris in 1884.

In person Mr. Benjamin was rather short, heavy set, with square shoulders, and was inclined toward corpulency. His face was typically Jewish, the short black beard he wore helping to intensify it. His ability to sway an audience by his eloquence was nothing short of marvellous. When in Richmond he resided on Main street, between Fourth and Fifth. He invariably wore the most immaculate of linen, was always cheerful and affable, and never traveled without a copy of Tennyson, and, strange to say, was also an ardent admirer of Horace.

Mr. Benjamin was the author of a number of works, mostly of a legal character, and his ‘Benjamin on Sales’ is to-day a leading standard authority.

Judah P. Benjamin was a man among men.