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Edgar Allen Poe was born on January 19, 1809 in England.
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The state Illinois was created in the same year as Edgars birth.
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Edgars mother died of tuberculosis when he was only 3 years old.
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Maine becomes its own state.
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She died of the same disease as Poes birth mother.
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5,000 people died in the earthquake.
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The bool The Tell Tale Heart was pubished in 1843 and later changed in 1845
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The Raven is the storie he wrote for his wife while she was dieing.
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Potato blight makes it hard for the Irish to grow there crops.
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His wife died the of tuberculosis at the same age as his mother when she died.
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He died at Washington University Hospital, which is in Baltimore, Maryland. Be is buried in Westminster Burying Ground.
