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Poe was born to traveling actors in Boston on January 19, 1809. Edgar was the second of three children. His other brother William Henry Leonard Poe and Poe’s sister Rosalie Poe would grow up to teach penmanship at a Richmond girls’ school. Within three years of Poe’s birth both of his parents had died, and he was taken in by the wealthy tobacco merchant John Allan and his wife Frances Valentine Allan.
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Poe's sister Rosalie Poe was born about a year after him, would grow up to teach penmanship at a Richmond girls’ school.
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Within three years of Poe’s birth both of his parents had died, and he was taken in by the wealthy tobacco merchant and his wife.
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— Last night, with many cares & toils oppres‘d, Weary, I laid me on a couch to rest.” This is Poe’s earliest surviving poem. It was never published during his lifetime.
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Poe enlists in the United States Army under the name Edgar A. Perry.
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William Henry Leonard Poe, Edgar’s older brother, dies in Baltimore, probably of tuberculosis or cholera
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Edgar (aged 27) and Virginia (aged 13) marry in Richmond, Virginia. The ceremony is officiated by the Reverend Amasa Convers, a Presbyterian minister who was also editor of the Southern Religious Telegraph.
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Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym is published in New York by Harper & Brothers.
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Poe’s Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (two volumes) is published in Philadelphia by Lea and Blanchard.
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Poe wrote the poem in late 1844, while staying at the farm of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Henry Brennan in New York.
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Virginia Poe dies of tuberculosis in Fordham, New York. She is entombed on February 2 in the Valentine family vault in the Dutch Reformed Church at Fordham.
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Edgar Allan Poe dies in Baltimore in the Washington University Hospital
