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Poe is Born
Poe is born to unwealthy Parents, and sadly after that is mother died of tuberculosis in RIchmond, Virginia. Then he was adopted by John Allan. -
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Edgar Allen Poe's Life
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Poe's Sster is born
Poe's sister rosalie is born, but sadly after that Poe's father deserts the family, leaving his mother alone to care for three children. -
Poe's Parents pass
Elizabeth Arnold Poe dies of tuberculosis in Richmond, Virginia. Within days, David Poe also dies of tuberculosis. With no parents to take care of them, the three children of the family are split up. Henry goes to live with his paternal grandparents. A Richmond couple, John and Frances Allan, take in Edgar as a foster child.
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England
The Allan family sails to London, where Edgar enrolls in school.
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Back to the U.S.A.
Five years after leaving America for England, the Allans return to Richmond, Virginia.
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Poe's first Poem
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."31.
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Poe Goes to College
Poe enrolls midway through the academic year at the University of Virginia, which had opened less than a year before.
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