Abram B. Olin

Abram Baldwin Olin (September 21, 1808 – July 7, 1879) was a United States representative from New York and an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.

Early life Olin was born on September 21, 1808, in Shaftsbury, Bennington County, Vermont, Olin was a youngers son of Gideon Olin, a United States representative from Vermont, and his second wife, Lydia Myres Pope Olin.

Federal judicial service

Olin was nominated by President Abraham Lincoln on March 10, 1863, to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (now the United States District Court for the District of Columbia), to a new Associate Justice seat authorized by 12 Stat. 762.

Personal life

After being ill for several weeks, Olin died on July 7, 1879, at his residence near Sligo in Montgomery County, Maryland (now part of Silver Spring). He was interred in the Danforth family lot adjacent to West Lawn Cemetery in Williamstown, Berkshire County, Massachusetts.