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He was the second child born to the family of Elizabeth Arnold Poe and David Poe, Jr.. They were both traveling actors.
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Poes sister was named Rosalie. Shortly after her birth Edgars father David left them, leaving Elizabeth alone with 3 kids.
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Elizabeth dies of tuberculosis in Richmond Virgina and David also dies of tuberculosis. The family was then split up.
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his first day of school
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must be good to be back in the USA
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his first poem
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Poe went to the University of Virginia
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Poe wants to have his own life
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edgar goes into the US. Army
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Edgar was really close with his Foster mother
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Edgar goes to a milatary college
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Edgar's older brother Henry dies of either tuberculosis or cholera at the age of 27
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Edgar was tired of the miliatary
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Edgar gets a job as editor
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Edgar maries his cousin Virginia Clemm when she was only 13 years old
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Edgar and wife decide to move north
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, is published.
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Edgar is hired as an editor at Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, a job he holds until June 1840.
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Edgars story collection Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque is published in two volumes.
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editor at Graham's Magazine, where he works until May 1842.
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Virginia begins to bleed from her mouth, a symptom of untreated tuberculosis.
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lectures on poetry
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Poe, his wife, and her mother move to New York City
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Poe publishes the poem , The Raven It is wildly successful, bringing the writer the fame and fortune that have long eluded him
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he Broadway Journal folds due to serious financial problems
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Virginia dies of tuberculosis at their home in the Bronx
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Edgar proposes to a poet named Sarah Helen Whitman, who agrees on the condition that he quit drinking
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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
