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Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., on January 19, 1809. -
David Poe Jr, Edgar Allan Poe's father, abandons him on October 18, 1809. David Poe Jr was also an alcoholic who abandoned his 3 children and soon died in 1811. -
Edgar Allan Poe's mother, Elizabeth Arnold Poe, or "Eliza" for short, died from tuberculosis, being forced to abandon her children. -
David Poe Jr died on December 11, 1811, at age 27. -
The Allan family brought Edgar Allan Poe due to his mother dying to tuberculosis and they raised him as their son. -
Edgar Allan Poe attended a grammar school in Irvine, Scotland, located in Kirkgatehead, next to the Irvine Parish Church.
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Edgar Allan Poe's sweetheart, Elmira Royster, was his teenage love shortly before he started going to the University of Virginia. They soon had to be broken apart due to Elmira Royster's father interfering with them after they got secretly engaged. (They didn't get married) -
Edgar Allan Poe attended the University of Virginia in 1826 for 11 months, but soon became heavily in debt due to gambling losses, forcing him to leave. -
Edgar Allan Poe went to Boston after leaving the University of Virginia. When he was there, he wrote his first book of poetry called "Tamerlane and Other Poems." While in Boston, Poe served in the United States Army! (Information on his serve at the next event) -
Edgar Allan Poe reunites with Elmira Royster after his wife died. They got engaged in late September and had a wedding scheduled for October 17, 1849. Sadly, 10 days before the wedding, Poe died suddenly, leading to another failed engagement. -
Edgar Allan Poe died at age 40 from an unknown cause 10 days before his big wedding. Nobody actually knows how he died, but there are many theories on how he could've died; most don't have enough evidence to back them up.