Melville retired in 1886, after several of his wife's relatives died and left the couple legacies that Mrs. Melville administered with skill and good fortune.

After Melville died unexpectedly in 1889, Anna took control of the company and became one of the most powerful businesswomen of the day.

* August 1-Herman Melville, novelist ( died 1891 )

The Viscountess Melville later remarried and died in June 1829.

He died on 10 June 1851 at Melville Castle, and was buried at the Old Kirk, Lasswade, Edinburghshire, on 17 June.

He was born at Baldovie near Montrose, Angus, the youngest son of Richard Melville ( brother to Melville of Dysart ); his father died at the Battle of Pinkie in 1547, fighting in the van of the Scottish army.

* August 23-William Melville Martin, politician and Premier of Saskatchewan ( died 1970 )

With the " country party " in disarray, Lord Melville, Lord Leven, and Lord Shaftesbury, leader of the opposition to Charles's rule, fled to Holland where Shaftesbury soon died.

One of Lord Minto's, Lady Charlotte ( died 1899 ), married the Conservative MP Melville Portal.

Lord Melville died childless and was succeeded by his first cousin once removed, John Melville, the third Lord, grandson of the aforementioned John Melville, elder brother of the first Lord.

* May 16-Charles Melville Hays, railway executive ( died 1912 )

Stories of the haunting began when Charles Melville Hays died on his return voyage on the RMS Titanic from Europe 12 days before the hotel's opening.

Two months after Scott's inauguration, incumbent Junior United States Senator J. Melville Broughton, a former state governor, died in office.

Melville died in 1977 and is buried in Setauket at the Caroline Church and Cemetery.

He died at his home in 36 Melville Street on 17 July 1851, and is buried in New Calton Cemetery, beside his daughters Frances Julia and Agnes Emily.

Born in Beverly, Massachusetts, he was the son of Presbyterian minister Edmund Melville Wylie and the former Edna Edwards, a novelist, who died when Philip was five years old.

Pakula died on November 19, 1998 in a freak car accident on the Long Island Expressway in Melville, New York.

He became engaged to Nancy Melville, daughter of Maj. Thomas Melville of Boston, but she died soon afterward.

She died in 1822, leaving a son and a daughter, Elizabeth, who became the wife of author Herman Melville.

From 1838 to 1847, he resided at what is now known as the Herman Melville House in Lansingburgh, New York.

We were somewhat startled at the remark, but still more at learning, a few days after, that Melville was really supposed to be deranged, and that his friends were taking measures to place him under treatment.

But the publication failed miserably, and the unsold copies were burned when Melville was unable to afford to buy them at cost.

A common story says that his New York Times obituary called him " Henry Melville ", implying that he was unknown and unappreciated at his time of death, but the story is not true.

On May 12, 1985, the New York City Herman Melville Society gathered at 104 East 26th Street to dedicate the intersection of Park Avenue south and 26th Street as Herman Melville Square.

* Melville Room at the Berkshire Athenaeum

* Melville index entry at Poets ' Corner

With references from Boas and Ruth Benedict, he was accepted as a graduate student by Melville J. Herskovits at Northwestern University in Chicago.

Typee ( 1846 ; in full: Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life ) is American writer Herman Melville's first book, a classic in the literature of travel and adventure partly based on his actual experiences as a captive on the island Nuku Hiva ( which Melville spelled as Nukuheva ) in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands, in 1842.

The same version was published in the United States ; however, critical references to missionaries and Christianity were removed by Melville from the second US edition at the request of his American publisher.

The short stories " Melville on Iapetus " ( 1983 ), " Promises to Keep " ( 1984 ), " Oculus " ( 2002 ), " The Big Downtown " ( 2005 ), " Kaminsky at War " ( 2006 ), and " Maiden Voyage " ( 2012 ) are also set in the Academy universe.

They were assigned to specific outposts in the Panama Canal Zone, Miami, Florida, the Hawaiian Sea Frontier at Pearl Harbor, in the Central Pacific, and a training center in Melville, Rhode Island.

* Polytechnic Institute of New York University ( formerly Polytechnic University, now part of NYU )-has a " Long Island Graduate Center " at Melville

* SBI-Melville-Sanford-Brown Institute campus at Melville

The Canning River rises not far from North Bannister, 100 km southeast of Perth and joins the Swan at Applecross, opening into Melville Water.

early part of the nineteenth century: Fort Dundas on Melville Island in 1824 ; Fort Wellington at Raffles Bay in 1829 ; and Victoria Settlement ( Port Essington ) on the Cobourg Peninsula in 1838.

Melville is located at ( 30. 693351 ,-91. 745506 ).

One short term historical figure was Herman Melville, who in 1840 had been residing with his mother in Lansingburgh, but who taught for a half year at a one room schoolhouse in Brunswick.

* Herman Melville, author, often visited his mother, Maria Gansevoort Melville, at her home in Northumberland.

A Presbyterian church was built in Melville in 1829 at the northeast corner of Old Country and Sweet Hollow Roads.

There were six fare zones, one of which was the Duryea Farm at Melville.

In addition, the city is home to a large number of independent, fee-paying schools including Edinburgh Academy, Fettes College, George Heriot's School, George Watson's College, Merchiston Castle School, Stewart's Melville College and The Mary Erskine School.

It is also the home of Canon U. S. A., Inc., though Canon U. S. A. is due to move its corporate headquarters to Melville, NY ( in neighboring Suffolk County ).

Melville is home to the U. S. headquarters of several national and international corporations, including Hain Celestial, Arrow Electronics, Chyron, MSC Industrial Direct, Nikon Corporation, OSI Pharmaceuticals, Allion Healthcare, the Italian-food chain Sbarro, the medical and dental supply distributor Henry Schein, Bouchard Transportation and global staffing giant Adecco ( US Headquarters ).

In 1906 the citizens of the Brantford and Brant County areas formed the Bell Memorial Association to commemorate the invention of the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell in July 1874 at his parent's home, Melville House, in Brantford, Ontario.

In August 1919 a Columbia faculty member named Raymond M. Weaver, doing research for what would become the first biography of Melville, paid a visit to his granddaughter Eleanor Melville Metcalf at her South Orange, New Jersey home.

Three episodes from 1975 circulate amongst collectors, two as recorded by home viewers: the Password All-Stars Finale ; a studio master of episode # 15 of the big-money revamp ( March 14, 1975 ) with Betty White and Vicki Lawrence ; and the June 27, 1975 Finale with Kate Jackson and Sam Melville.

Originally commissioned as the family seat of the Melville family, the house became an RAF hospital during World War II, lay derelict in the 1970s and 1980s, underwent restoration and conversion into a luxury retirement home in the late 1980s, and has now been restored and converted into a popular hotel.

The Northwest Arm contains several small islands including Melville Island, home of the Armdale Yacht Club, and Deadman's Island, at the northwestern end near Armdale.

Author Robert Finch, in a review of the book, writes, " Like Melville, Eiseley thought of himself, and by extension all mankind, as ' an orphan, a wood child, a changeling ,' a cosmic outcast born into a world that afforded him no true home.

It is home to Garden City Shopping Centre and the council offices for the City of Melville.

In 1906 the citizens of the City of Brantford, Ontario, Canada and its surrounding area formed the Bell Memorial Association to commemorate the invention of the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell in July 1874 at his parent's home, Melville House, near Brantford.

Arrowhead ( 1780 ), also known as Herman Melville House, was the home of American author Herman Melville during his most productive years from 1850-1863.

Melville sold Arrowhead to his brother Allan, who used it first as a summer home and then moved there permanently.