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Edgar Allan Poe

  • Death

    October 7,1849 (40 years old )
    gained contentiousness and he said ''God please help my poor soul'' and he died
  • Born

    January 19, 1809, Boston, MA
  • His Father

    1811, his father had abandoned the family
  • Mother

    Died of TB in 1811 leaving alone him his elder brother Henry, and his sister Rosalie orphans .
  • Foster care

    him and his siblings had to be separated into foster homes and Edgar went to live with the Alan family
  • Childhood love

    His childhood love died with brain cancer in 1824
  • Greif

    Edgar cried at his childhood loves grave ALOT
  • Foster father had an affare when whife was sick with TB in another room in the house

    had an affare when wife was sick with TB in another room in the house
  • 1827

    foster father makes him go to boarding school and he gave him barley enough money to bye clothes and food , he had to smash furniture to put in fire to make warmth
  • army

    Edgar went to the army and they called him Perry and many years later the military found out he was under age .
  • 1828

    he published 2 books of poetry , foster mom died of TB
  • 1831-1834

    1831-moves in with aunt and 8 year old cousin , Virginia
    1834- foster father dies and leaves him nothing
  • 1835

    he gets job moves out , started drinking and realized he loves Virginia when she was about to move out of his aunts house , he fights for her , They get married he is 26 she was 12 and changed her age to 21 so it would be legal ,played many games
  • first detective story

    first detective story
    he writes his first detective story and has it published in 1841 . in that book ,called the mask of the red death, all murders were committed by a monkey
  • 1846

    Virginia died with TB
  • New York

    He was going to new York and he diapered , October 3rd they found him unconscious in Baltimore Maryland with someone else's clothes on, many people thought politicians sent somebody to kill him / poison him so he could not vote , he was taken to the hospital .