• Walking In The Footsteps of Our Ancestors… Melissa Campbell Yerks

    By Published On: December 13th, 2020Categories: Places: Chappaqua, Surname: Yerks, Walking In The Footsteps of Our Ancestors

    On May 6, 1897, the local Chappaqua newspaper reported that Mrs. Osborn Yerks (Melissa Campbell) had moved into the Gabrielle Greeley Clendenin "hillside house."  Gabrielle is the daughter of Horace Greeley, the well-known publisher of the Tribune Newspaper. Mrs. Clendenin was well-known for her charity and generosity. With this being just two years after the