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allan was born
Edgar Poe is born in Boston to Elizabeth Arnold Poe and David Poe, Jr. His parents are traveling actors. The couple has one son named Henry and their daughter, Rosalie is born a year after Edgar. -
poe poems
A fifteen-year-old Edgar Allan Poe pens his first known poem: "Last night, with many cares & toils oppres'd,/ Weary, I laid me on a couch to rest." -
marries his wife
Poe, who is 27 years old marries his cousin, 13 year-old Virginia Clemm in Richmond, Virginia. They move to New York and later to Philadelphia -
publishes the raven
Poe publishes the poem , The Raven in the New York Evening Mirror. It is wildly successful, bringing the writer the fame and fortune that have long eluded him. He soon becomes editor and owner of a magazine called the Broadway Journal, a doomed enterprise that is already in debt when Poe takes over -
the world ends for edgar allan poe
After being found unconscious in a Baltimore gutter, Edgar Allan Poe is taken to the hospital and pronounced dead of causes still unknown. He is buried at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Baltimore.
