tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7502312000087595701.post4943682319741119912..comments2024-03-28T05:18:25.792-07:00Comments on Daytonian in Manhattan: C. P. H. Gilbert's 23 and 24 Riverside DriveTom Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13542224816886418433noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7502312000087595701.post-18592324182278771812018-12-11T09:28:45.212-08:002018-12-11T09:28:45.212-08:00 His parents, with whom he probably he lived at 25... His parents, with whom he probably he lived at 25 W 34th St., died in 1893 which prompted George Clinton McKesson to purchase the property on Riverside Drive. He lived there with his maiden sisters Isabella and Mary Augusta and widowed sister Eliza Vennard. My grandmother was born at the McKesson home on 34th Street and after her grandparents died her family moved to Staten Island.aperryscotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07866964090278202553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7502312000087595701.post-56258553645112959022018-12-11T08:23:29.946-08:002018-12-11T08:23:29.946-08:00My great-grandmother Ida lefferts McKesson Perry d...My great-grandmother Ida lefferts McKesson Perry died at 24 Riverside Drive while attending the quickly arranged formal wedding of one her nephews (they had eloped a few weeks before). George Clinton McKesson resided there with his strong-willed sisters. My records indicate he never married and family lore has it that his sisters scared off any potential girl friends. Leaving Riverside drive George lived with my grand parents on Staten Island until his death in 1930. George Clinton McKesson Brown was the son of his sister Virginia Greenway McKesson who had married George Bruce Brown, a connection of the Wolfe family. Their daughter Virginia Wolfe Brown was one of the passengers on the ill-fated last voyage of the Lusitaniaaperryscotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07866964090278202553noreply@blogger.com