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Walt Whitman is born in Long Island, New York.
He is one of nine children. -
Their family moves to Brooklyn, New York.
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Walt Whitman drops out of elementary school at the age of 11.
He does this in order to earn money for his family. His job was an assistant in the offices of a doctor and a lawyer. -
Walt Whitman gets an apprenticeship.
Whitman gets a job as an apprentice for the Long Island Patriot newspaper. -
Walt's family abandons him in Brooklyn while they move back to Long Island
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Whitman works for different newspapers in New York
Some papers he worked for were the The Long Islander newspaper and The Brooklyn Daily Eagle -
A fire burns down the printing district he was working in.
After this event, Walt moves back in with his family in Long Island and he becomes a school teacher. -
Whitman publishes his first edition of "Leaves of Grass"
This first edition consisted of 12 poems that were supposedly written in a "new" style. -
Walt Whitman's father dies.
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Whitman publishes the second edition of Leaves of Grass
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Whitman works as a newspaper editor at Brooklyn Times
He works there for two years. -
Whitman publishes his third edition of Leaves of Grass.
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American Civil War
Whitman moves to Washington D.C. and works as a nurse in the military hospitals. -
Whitman writes "O Captain! My Captain!"
He writes this In mourning of Lincoln's death -
Abraham Lincoln's assasination.
Shot by John Wilkes Booth in an attempt to avenge the Confederate's loss. Whitman, now a clerk at the U.S. Department of the Interior, -
Whitman is fired from the Department of the Interior.
He is fired because of his supposedly obscene content in Leaves of Grass. He immediately gets a job at the U.S. Attorney General's Office. -
Whitman publishes his fourth edition of Leaves of Grass.
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Whitman publishes the fifth edition of Leaves of Grass
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Whitman suffers a stroke.
This stroke leaves him partially paralyzed. -
Whitman's mother dies.
Walt moves in with his brother in Camden, New Jersey. -
Whitman suffers a second stroke.
This stroke leaves him completely paralyzed. -
Whitman publishses his sixth and final edition of Leaves of Grass
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Walt Whitman passes away in Camden, New Jersey.
He dies of bronchial pneumonia at the age of 72 and is buried in Camden's Harleigh Cemetery.
