Melvin Church Derick was born on 8 December 1852 in Brockton, Massachusetts to Philo Derick and Phoebe Adelia Flagg. He never married and worked in the shoe industry in Boston and Brockton, Massachusetts. Melvin died on 21 August 1907 in Brockton, Massachusetts and was buried at the St. Thomas Cemetery in Noyan.
([187-?]-[190-?])