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Edgar was the second of three children. He was born on a stormy day in january on the streets of Boston
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Rosalies birthday is shortly after Edgars.
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Elizabeth Arnold Poe dies of tuberculosis in Richmond, Virginia.. a little later David Poe also dies of tuberculosis. Becuase the children have nobody to take care of them they split up.
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While Allen being only 15, he creates his first popular poem "Last night, with many cares & toils oppres'd,/ Weary, I laid me on a couch to rest."
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Tamerlane and Other Poems—is published. The author is listed only as "A Bostonian."
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Henry dies at age 27 from either tuberculosis or cholera.
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Virginia clemm hapily marries the 27 year old master mind at a ceremony in Richmond, Virginia
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Poe's first novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, is published.
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" Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque" is created into 2 volumes
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The Raven gave Poe most of his fame and fortune. Then becomes the owner of a magazine called the Broadway Journal, a doomed enterprise that is already in debt when Poe takes over.
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Virginia dies of tuberculosis at their home in the Bronx. After losing his wife people start to think that he is going insane and also becomes an alcoholic.
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After being found unconscious in a Baltimore gutter, Edgar Allan Poe is taken to the hospital and pronounced dead of causes still unknown. He is buried at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Baltimore.
R.I.P. Edgar Allen Poe
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