Whitman (Van Nostrand), Mary Elizabeth (b. 1821)Print source: J.R. LeMaster and Donald D. Kummings, eds., Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia (New York: Garland Publishing, 1998), reproduced by permission.
In 1840, Mary Elizabeth Whitman, the younger sister of Walt Whitman, married at the age of nineteen shipbuilder Ansel Van Nostrand, and moved to Greenport, New York on the north fork of Long Island.
