Charles Augustus De Kay, author, diplomat & poet

Charles' birth and death information are available at https://www.myheritage.com/matchingresult-963bfac5f77036d4c19f829d6... and at https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/64844467/charles-augustus-de_kay

• Charles' birth, photograph, and death information are available at https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/78674300/charles-augustus-dekay
• Charles' photograph is used courtesy of DMC, Find A Grave ID 47184694.
• The following write-up is available at the above-mentioned URL: "Youngest child of Commodore George Coleman DeKay and Janet Halleck Drake. Married Lucy Edwalyn Coffey on June 4, 1888 at Calvary Church, NY, NY. Poet, literary critic, linguist, and fencer. He founded the Fencer's Club in 1880, the Author's Club in 1882, the National Sculpture Society, and the National Arts Club. Father of Drake, Rodman, Ormonde, Helena and Janet S. DeKay, Mrs. Robert W. Barbour, Marion Eckford (Mrs. Peyton Rous) and Mrs. E. Basil Bury."