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Edgar Poe (the Allan came later) was born 19 January 1809 in Boston to Elizabeth Arnold Poe and David Poe, Jr.
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In April 1829, he entered the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
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Poe got the answer he wanted; the two cousins were married in Richmond, Virginia on 16 May 1836.
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On 3 October 1849, Edgar Allan Poe was found in a Baltimore street (some reports say in a gutter), semi-conscious and wearing clothes that didn't fit him. He was taken to a hospital, where he spent four delirious days before perishing on 7 October 1849. He was 40 years old.
