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Death
October 7,1849 (40 years old )
gained contentiousness and he said ''God please help my poor soul'' and he died -
Born
January 19, 1809, Boston, MA -
His Father
1811, his father had abandoned the family -
Mother
Died of TB in 1811 leaving alone him his elder brother Henry, and his sister Rosalie orphans . -
Foster care
him and his siblings had to be separated into foster homes and Edgar went to live with the Alan family -
Childhood love
His childhood love died with brain cancer in 1824 -
Greif
Edgar cried at his childhood loves grave ALOT -
Foster father had an affare when whife was sick with TB in another room in the house
had an affare when wife was sick with TB in another room in the house -
1827
foster father makes him go to boarding school and he gave him barley enough money to bye clothes and food , he had to smash furniture to put in fire to make warmth -
army
Edgar went to the army and they called him Perry and many years later the military found out he was under age . -
1828
he published 2 books of poetry , foster mom died of TB -
1831-1834
1831-moves in with aunt and 8 year old cousin , Virginia
1834- foster father dies and leaves him nothing -
1835
he gets job moves out , started drinking and realized he loves Virginia when she was about to move out of his aunts house , he fights for her , They get married he is 26 she was 12 and changed her age to 21 so it would be legal ,played many games -
first detective story
he writes his first detective story and has it published in 1841 . in that book ,called the mask of the red death, all murders were committed by a monkey -
1846
Virginia died with TB -
New York
He was going to new York and he diapered , October 3rd they found him unconscious in Baltimore Maryland with someone else's clothes on, many people thought politicians sent somebody to kill him / poison him so he could not vote , he was taken to the hospital .