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Edgar Allan Poe born
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Father left him and his mom
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Mother Died When He Was 3
She died of TB -
First Love Died
First love died of Brain cancer. -
Goes To College
Poe enrolls midway through the academic year at the University of Virginia, which had opened less than a year before. -
Splits With Allan Family
After running up a $2,000 gambling debt while at college, Poe gets into an argument with his foster father when John Allan refuses to give him money to settle the debt. Poe ditches college and the Allans. He moves to Baltimore to join relatives there. -
Foster Mother Death
Died to TB -
Married Cousin Virgina ( Secretly )
Due to his love for her they decided to marry -
The Masque of the Red Death
One of the many stories/poems written by him -
Tell Tale Heart
One of the Many stories/poems written by him -
The Raven
He only made 14$ on the book. One of the many stories/poems written by him. -
Wife Died
Due To TB his wife virgina died -
Engagement
Poe proposes to a poet named Sarah Helen Whitman, who agrees on the condition that he quit drinking. Poe can't live up to the promise, and Whitman calls off the engagement a month later. -
Engaged Again!
Poe travels to Richmond and convinces his childhood sweetheart, Elmira Royster Shelton, to become his fiancée. He joins the Sons of Temperance, an organization that forbids drinking (sort of like a nineteenth-century equivalent of Alcoholics Anonymous). The next month, Poe travels to Baltimore. -
Found On The Street
Was found semi-conscious , Unkown on what has happened. -
Death
It is not known what caused his death. But his alcoholism probably had something to do with it.
