Edgar+Allan+Poe.

=Edgar Allan Poe WebQuest=


 * Event || Date/Year || Importance || Source - Website Address ||
 * Birth || January 19, 1809 || Born in Boston. || [] ||
 * Elizabeth Arnold Poe died in Richmond. || December 8, 1811 || She was his mother. || [] ||
 * Edgar was taken into the family of John Allan, a member of the firm of Ellis and Allan, tobacco-merchants. || 1811 || He got a new family. || [] ||
 * He was later taken to Scotland and England (1815–20), where he was given a classical education that was continued in Richmond. || 1815-1820 || He was getting an education. || [] ||
 * For 11 months in 1826 he attended the University of Virginia, but his gambling losses at the university so incensed his guardian that he refused to let him continue. || 1826 || He was in debt. And got expelled from school. || [] ||
 * Poe returned to Richmond to find his sweetheart, (Sarah) Elmira Royster, engaged. || 1826 || He found one of his loves. || [] ||
 * Poverty forced him to join the army under the name of Edgar A. Perry, but, on the death of Poe's foster mother, John Allan purchased his release from the army and helped him get an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. || May 26, 1827 || He inlisted in the army. || [] ||
 * In 1833 his //MS. Found in a Bottle// won $50 from a Baltimore weekly. || 1833 || He wrote that book. || [] ||
 * By 1835 he was in Richmond as editor of the //Southern Literary Messenger//. || 1835 || He got his self on his feet. || [] ||
 * Death || October, 7, 1949 || Baltimore, Maryland || [] ||

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