Benjamin H. Trask

Benjamin Ishi Hammett Trask (July 4, 1828 – January 11, 1897) was an American merchant and real estate investor.

Early life Trask was born on July 4, 1828, at Vineyard Haven on Martha's Vineyard.

He was educated at the Tisbury Academy before he attended the Falmouth Seminary on Cape Cod. At the time of his death, his office was located at 115 Broadway in New York. He was also an investor in gas properties, including the East River Gas Company, the Equity Gas Company of Brooklyn and the Suffolk County Gas Company. Together, they were the parents of two daughters, who married Peter Demansk Sturges, son of James S. Sturges, in 1868. Clara Trask (1853–1853), who died in infancy. His widow died a year and a half later on July 28, 1898.

Descendants Through his daughter Sarah, he was a grandfather of Sadie Trask Sturges (1868–1915) and Adele Sturges (1872–1930), who married (and divorced) Frank Nelaton Dodd, and Bainbridge Percy Clark.