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Walt Whitman was born in West Hills, New York in 1819 by Louisa Van Velsor Whitman and Walter Whitman Sr.
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When he was 3 years old he moved to Brooklyn, NY with his family.
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On Independence day Walt Whitman is lifted up off the ground and kissed on the cheek by Marquis de Lafayette
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His date for when he was pulled out of school by his father at age 11 isn't exact but it is between 1830 and 1831
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The date isn't exact but he moved to NY City to become a printer.
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the date isn't exact but leaves of grass is his most famous and successful poem. Back then everybody hated leaves of grass and thought it was weird and disturbing.
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Walt Whitman is sent to an insane asylum for attacking his mother at her home in Camden, New Jersey
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Abraham Lincoln is shot in the back of the head at the Ford theatre in Washington D.C.
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The date isn't exact but he does suffered a paralytic stroke which leaves him half paralyzed and his mother dies years later.
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No exact date but he designed and built a mausoleum in Camden, New Jersey especially for when he died a year later of another stroke.
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When Walt Whitman died he was buried in a tomb in the Camden Harleigh Cemetary in Camden, New Jersey.