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born in Boston
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Elizabeth Arnold Poe dies of illness and Edgar is adopted by Jon and Ellis Allen who were tobacco merchants
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Edgar registers at the University of Richmond in Virginia
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Poe enlists in the army and attains the rank of sergeant major then with the help of his adopted father gets a discharge
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Poe begins editing the Litereay Messenger for Thomas White in Richmond Virginia
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Poe marries his cousin Virginia Clemmens in Richmond
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Poe's Tale of Grotesque and Arabesque is published in two volumes in Philadelphia
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The Raven is published securing Poe's success
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Poe rents a cabin in Fordham Virginia where he spends th last years of his life
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Virginia Poe becomes ill and dies
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Poe becomes ill with pneumonia and dies after being taken to Washington Memorial Hospital
