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Edgar Allan Poe is born to Elizabeth Arnold Poe and David Poe Jr. Edgar had one brother Henry
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Poe's Life Span
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Poe's father leaves the family
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Both Edgar's parents die of tuberculosis and he is adopted by foster parents
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Edgar writes his first poem
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Poe gets accepted at West Point
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Egdar Allan Poe gets married to Virgina
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Poe takes a job as a magazine editor
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Poe's story collection Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque is published in two volumes.
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Virgina Poe dies
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Poe dies