Katherine Gansevoort Melville (1851-1939)

Katherine Gansevoort Melville

Birth

30 Apr 1851

Manhattan, New York County, New York, USA

Death

13 Sep 1939 (aged 88)

Pittsfield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, USA

Burial

Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum

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Last surviving niece of author Herman Melville. She has previously resided in Elizabeth, New Jersey as late as 1920s living with her sister, Maria Morewood for about forty years.

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Parents

Allan Melville

1823–1872
Sophia Eliza Thurston Melville

1827–1858

Siblings

Maria Gansevoort Melville Morewood

1849–1935

Half Siblings

Florence Melville

1850–1919
Lucy Melville

1856–1885

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New York, U.S., State Census, 1855
1880 United States Federal Census

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Sophia Eliza Thurston Melville

Maria Gansevoort Melville Morewood

Florence Melville

Lucy Melville

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Maria Gansevoort Melville Morewood

Florence Melville

Lucy Melville

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