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Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Poe enlisted in the United States Army and served at Fort Independence in Boston Harbor for five dollars a month.
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"The Raven" appeared in the Evening Mirror and became a popular sensation. It made Poe a household name almost instantly.
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Poe moved to a cottage in Fordham, New York, in what is now the Bronx, this is where his wife Virginia would die.
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He was taken to the Washington Medical College where he would die.
