Complex sentence: Katrina Trask (30 May, 1853--8 January, 1922) author and philanthropist, was born Kate Nichols in Brooklyn, New York to George Little Nichols and Christina Mary Cole.
Split into simpler sentences: Katrina Trask (30 May, 1853--8 January, 1922) was an author and philanthropist. She was born Kate Nichols in Brooklyn, New York City to George Little Nichols and Christina Mary Cole.