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To the river by edgar allan poe6/29/2023 Place of his birth, Poe turned his back on Boston by stating only that his family was from Baltimore, allowing biographers to be Perhaps most revealing, when asked for the Placed his feet on the first steps of what would be his career for the next 17 years. It was in Baltimore that Poe found his future wife, Virginia Eliza Clemm, and in Baltimore that he Virginian gentleman, but it was in Baltimore that Poe sought refuge when he had feuded with his foster father, John Allan, and wasĬompelled to leave the house. When asked about his origins, Poe was fond of saying that he was a Not wealth through patriotism, hard work and community service. Poe’s grandparents, David and Elizabeth Cairnes Poe, raised seven children and achieved here a place of prominence if His great-grandfather, John Poe, established the Poe clan in Baltimore in 1755, only a year before hisĭeath. Parents, both actors, were traveling in Boston, his family roots were firmly set in the soil of Baltimore and here his mortal Although Richmond is the place Poe most considered home, Baltimore defines the beginning and the end of his life.
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