Herman Melville, Volume 1 A Half Known Life

"Herman spent only his first year at No. 6 Pearl St. along Manhattan's Battery. Barely a toddler in the fall of 1820, he moved with his two older siblings, merchant father Allan Melvill, age 38, and perpetually expectant mother Maria, age 29, to 55 Cortlandt Street, a few blocks north on the West Side"--