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Edgar Allan Poe was born to biological mother and father Elizabeth Arnold Poe and David Poe Jr.
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Edgar's sister Rosalie is born and shortly after her birth David Poe leaves the family with two sons Henry and Egdar, and new baby Rosalie. Also while all of this was happening Elizabeth is diagnosed with Tuberculosis
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In Richmond, Virginia Edgar's mother Elizabeth dies of Tuberculosis.Within days,David dies of the same disease.With no parents to take care of him and his siblings,the children get split up and live seperately, both with wealthy Richmond families.
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In 1811, when edgar allan poe is adopted by a Richmond couple John and Frances Allan, take Edgar as a foster child.The Allan family sails to London, where Edgar enrolls in school.
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5 years after leaving America to go to England, the Allan family returns to Richmond,Virginia.
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15 year old Edgar Allan Poe writes his first poem"Last Night'.
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Poe enrolls midway through the academic year at the University of Virginia, which had opened less than a year before.
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After being involved in a $2,000 gambling debt while at college, Poe gets in an argument with his foster father when he refuses to give him money to settle the debt. Poe leaves college and the Allan family,moving to Baltimore to join relatives there.
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Poe enrolls in the U.S. Army under the name "Edgar A. Perry." Shortly after his first book a poetry collection entitled 'Tamerlane and Other Poems" is published. The author is listed only as "A Bostonia'.
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Poe's foster mother, Frances Allan, with who he was still close, dies in Richmond. Poe was by then a sergeant major in the Army ,obtains leave to travel to her funeral.
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Poe is appointed to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. A few months later he publishes his second book of poetry "Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems'.
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Tired of the military, Poe successfully attempts to get himself kicked out of West Point. When he stops going to classes and chapel, Poe is dismissed. He publishes several anonymous short stories plus another book of poems.