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Walt Whitman is born in New York
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Walt drops out of elementary school at age 11
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Whitman gets a job as an apprentice for the Long Island Patriot newspaper
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Walt's family abandons him in Brooklyn while they move back to Long Island
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First edition of Walts poem Leaves of Grass is published
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Walt's father dies
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Walt writes "O Captain! My Captain"
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Walt became a part time nurse
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Walt publishes his 6th and final edition of Leaves of Grass
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Walt Whitmans death
