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unusual facts about Park Benjamin, Jr.



Park Benjamin, Jr.

It was the first story in the mode of George Chesney's The Battle of Dorking (1871); at least six other stories in this collection fall in that category, and Benjamin's predates the next by seven years.

In 1918, Benjamin's daughter Dorothy, 25, eloped with opera star Enrico Caruso, who was 45.

Park Benjamin, Sr.

He was born in Demerara, British Guiana, August 14, 1809, but was early sent to New England, and graduated from Trinity College, Hartford, Conn. He practiced law in Boston, but abandoned it for editorial work there and later in New York.


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