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Walter Whitman, Jr. is born in West Hills, Long Island, New York to father Walter Whitman, Sr. and Louisa Van Velsor. Born of a working class family of eight other siblings.
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Whitman attends public school in Brooklyn for six years at the age of four years old.
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Whitman interrupts his teaching career to start his own newspaper "The Long Islander" that fails but is later revived
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Whitman's short career of teaching comes to and end and he begins to publish stories, novels, fiction, and poems.
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Whitman publishes the novel, Franklin Evans: or The Inebriate
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Whitman meets J.E. McClure who is starting a New Orleans paper and strikes a deal with Whitman to come and be apart of the company.
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Whitman writes and self-publishes "Leaves of Grass," a collection of 12 unnmaed poems
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Whitman suffers a stroke that leaves him partially paralyzed.
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Whitman writes his last will and testament.
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Walter Whitman dies in Camden, New Jersey. The cause of death is miliary tuberculosis. The autopsy reveals one lung had completely collapsed while the other was working only one eighth of its capacity.
