Additional papers, [after 1888] and undated.

ArchivalResource

Additional papers, [after 1888] and undated.

Includes genealogical notes on the Melville and the Dearborn families and photographs of the Melville family, some of which illustrated Eleanor Melville Metcalf's Herman Melville, cycle and epicycle.

1 folder (.2 linear ft.)

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SNAC Resource ID: 8285073

Houghton Library

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Dearborn family.

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Metcalf, Eleanor Melville, 1882-1964

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Melville family

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The Melvilles of this collection were ancestors of the author Herman Melville. Thomas Melvill Sr. (1751-1832), grandfather of the author, was a merchant, naval officer, and U.S. Collector for the Port of Boston. Thomas Melvill Jr. (1776-1845), his son and an uncle of the author, was a banker and exporter in Europe and a farmer in Pittsfield, Mass. From the description of Additional papers, [after 1888] and undated. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 82576430 ...

Melvill, Thomas, 1776-1845

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