Henry David Thoreau

By 1518389

  • Birth Date

    Parents John and Cythis Threau

  • Thoreau leaves Concord

    The family leaves concord so dad can open a grocrey store

  • Returning to Concord

    The family moves back to concord and his father takes over his brother in laws pencil factory

  • concord Academy

    David Henry and John Thoreau enroll at concord Acaademy

  • Harvard

    Thoreau beings attending harvard

  • The AmericanScholar

    Henry attends a lecture from Ralp Emerson who he later becomes friend with

  • The Dial

    The transcendentalist journal the dial was founded where Henrty because a avid contributor publishing poems, seeays and translations

  • Fugitive slave law

    Congress passed the compromise of 1850 but Henry decided to hide escaping slaves

  • Thoreau death

    Thoreau dies at the age of 44 and is buried at Concords sleepy hollow cemetery in a casket covered in wildflowers