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When both of his parents died he was adopted by a Richmond couple named John and Frances Allan.
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Poe's parents died and he was orphaned, they both died of tuberculosis.
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Poe's mother died at 24 when he was 3 from tuberculosis.
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Poe enrolls for University of Virginia.
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Poe ditched school and was $2000 in debt.
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Poe enlists for the U.S. army as Edgar A. Perry and he publishes his first book,Tamerlane and Other Poems.
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Poe takes a job as a editor where he publishes critical reviews and his own stories and poems.
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Poe was 27 when he married his 13 year old cousin Virginia Clemm.
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His wife also died of tuberculosis.
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Poe died of bad sickness.
