Quo Fuit places 7 dated presences for Herman Melville across 3 places, from 1819 to 1863.
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Herman Melville (born Melvill; August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American writer of the American Renaissance period.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Herman Melville was documented, and when
1 August 1819exact date
New York Cityattested“Herman Melville was born in New York City, on August 1, 1819, the third of eight children to Allan Melvill and Maria (Gansevoort) Melvill.”source: Wikipedia: Herman Melville
1 August 1819exact date
New Yorkattested“Herman Melville was born in New York City, on August 1, 1819, the third of eight children to Allan Melvill and Maria (Gansevoort) Melvill.”source: Wikipedia: Herman Melville
31 May 1839exact date
New York Cityattested“On May 31, 1839, Gansevoort, then living in New York City, wrote that he was sure Herman could get a job on a whaler or merchant vessel.”source: Wikipedia: Herman Melville
31 May 1839exact date
New Yorkattested“On May 31, 1839, Gansevoort, then living in New York City, wrote that he was sure Herman could get a job on a whaler or merchant vessel.”source: Wikipedia: Herman Melville
1845year
Troyattested“Melville completed Typee, his first book, in the summer of 1845 while living in Troy, New York.”source: Wikipedia: Herman Melville
1863year
New York Cityattested“In 1863, he bought his brother's house at 104 East 26th Street in New York City and moved there.”source: Wikipedia: Herman Melville
1863year
New Yorkattested“In 1863, he bought his brother's house at 104 East 26th Street in New York City and moved there.”source: Wikipedia: Herman Melville
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1824year
Manhattanmentioned“In 1824, the Melvilles moved to a newly built house at 33 Bleecker Street in Manhattan.”source: Wikipedia: Herman Melville
1825year
New Yorkmentioned“In 1825, Herman and his brother Gansevoort enrolled in New York Male High School.”source: Wikipedia: Herman Melville
1829year
Columbia Grammar and Preparatory Schoolmentioned“In 1829, both Gansevoort and Herman transferred to Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School, and Herman enrolled in the English Department on September 28.”source: Wikipedia: Herman Melville
1830year
Albany, New Yorkmentioned“Emotionally unstable and behind on paying the rent for the house on Broadway, Herman's father tried to recover by moving his family to Albany, New York, in 1830 and going into the fur business.”source: Wikipedia: Herman Melville
December 1831month
New York Citymentioned“In December 1831, Allan Melvill returned from New York City by steamboat, but he had to travel the last 70 miles in an open carriage for two days and two nights in subfreezing temperatures.”source: Wikipedia: Herman Melville
December 1831month
New Yorkmentioned“In December 1831, Allan Melvill returned from New York City by steamboat, but he had to travel the last 70 miles in an open carriage for two days and two nights in subfreezing temperatures.”source: Wikipedia: Herman Melville
1834year
Schenectadymentioned“Melville did his job well at the bank; although he was only 14 in 1834, the bank considered him competent enough to be sent to Schenectady, New York, on an errand.”source: Wikipedia: Herman Melville
May 1839month
New Bedfordmentioned“Reynolds's account in the May 1839 issue of The Knickerbocker magazine of the hunt for a great white sperm whale named Mocha Dick, Herman and Gansevoort traveled to New Bedford, where Herman signed up for a whaling voyage aboard a new sh…”source: Wikipedia: Herman Melville
1842year
Nuku Hivamentioned“In the summer of 1842, Melville and his shipmate Richard Tobias Greene ("Toby") jumped ship at Nuku Hiva Bay.”source: Wikipedia: Herman Melville
November 1842month
Lahaina, Hawaiimentioned“In November, he contracted to be a seaman on the Nantucket whaler Charles & Henry for a six-month cruise (November 1842 – April 1843), and was discharged at Lahaina, Maui, in the Hawaiian Islands, in May 1843.”source: Wikipedia: Herman Melville
November 1842month
Hawaiian Islandsmentioned“In November, he contracted to be a seaman on the Nantucket whaler Charles & Henry for a six-month cruise (November 1842 – April 1843), and was discharged at Lahaina, Maui, in the Hawaiian Islands, in May 1843.”source: Wikipedia: Herman Melville
1844year
Marquesas Islandsmentioned“During the next year, the homeward bound ship visited the Marquesas Islands, Tahiti, and Valparaiso, and then, from summer to fall 1844, Mazatlan, Lima, and Rio de Janeiro, before reaching Boston on October 3.”source: Wikipedia: Herman Melville
1844year
Bostonmentioned“During the next year, the homeward bound ship visited the Marquesas Islands, Tahiti, and Valparaiso, and then, from summer to fall 1844, Mazatlan, Lima, and Rio de Janeiro, before reaching Boston on October 3.”source: Wikipedia: Herman Melville
1846year
Tai Pi (province)mentioned“Melville's first book, Typee (1846), is based on his stay in or near the Taipi Valley.”source: Wikipedia: Herman Melville
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