After John Allen’s business went through a bit of hardship, he came into some money, and was able to send Edgar to the University of Virginia. However, he ended up being forced to go back to Richmond after having a $2,000 debt that he tried to get rid of by gamboling. This, though, only made things worse. In 1827, Poe went back to his birth city, Boston, and at 18, enlisted in the army as Edgar A. Perry. During this time, he wrote his first collection of poems, Tamerlane and Other Poems.
Alexander Hamilton: Extraordinary American Alexander Hamilton was born sometime between 1755 and 1757 on the island of St.Cruix in the Dutch West Indies to James Hamilton and Rachel Levine. Hamilton had a very rough childhood, when he was ten his father left the family. With no other choice, his mother began working at a small shop, while Alexander became a clerk in an office owned by two New York merchants. When Alexander was thirteen his mother died, leaving him an orphan. After his mother’s death, Hamilton was then moved to New Jersey where his relatives lived.
Emerson actually wrote Concord Hymn as a leaflet on the occasion of the dedication of the Obelisk, a battle monument in Concord, Massachusetts. The monument commemorates the men who gave their lives at the Battle of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, the first battle of the American Revolution. Emerson’s grandfather was a man who personally fought in this battle. Their house was called The Old Manse, which is next to the bridge where Emerson’s father fought. Emerson is known to have written the hymn while he was living there.
Jimi's parents, Al Hendrix and Lucille Jeter got married in Seattle, Washington on March 31, 1942. Soon after Johnny (Jimi) Allen Hendrix was born in Seattle on November 27, 1942. Al and Lucille got divorced in December, 1951, because of Al's drinking problems. Al was granted custody of Jimi and his two brothers, Leon and Joseph. Shortly thereafter, Lucille Hendrix died of tuberculosis.
James attended Yale at the age of thirteen, but was expelled in his third year (1805) for committing several pranks. He worked on sailing ships, merchant vessels and then in the U.S. Navy. After seeing some of the world, he returned home in 1811 to marry Susan De Lancey, a woman from New York's social elite. The De Lancey's were Loyalists during the Revolution, and lost a lot of property with
Unfortunately, for the family of siblings, David Poe passed away in 1805 as well as Elizabeth passed away at the age of 21 in 1811. Edgar was two years of age and soon after was taken into the care of John and Rosalie Allen. In 1829, Rosalie passed away at the age of 21 also. Poe began attending The University of Virginia. Later, John gave little or no money for his education and Poe was forced to withdraw; although,
Unknown Darkness To write about things nobody likes to talk about or even mention in real life makes Nathaniel Hawthorne a great poet and a famous one at that. Hawthorne wrote so much about the American Colonies and how they lived their lives, he captured the smallest details of that time. Imagine being a writer in those times trying to find things to write about, in some of his poems you can see what a morbid mind he had, and it’s possibly due to his environment. Some of his Ancestors were direct descendants of Puritan judges. Which might have influenced his all famous “Scarlet Letter” and “The Minister’s Black Veil”, both these poems evoke each readers own personal judgments on human nature.
In the summer of 1775, his sister Elizabeth (age 7) and his brother Reuben (age 3) died in a dysentery epidemic that swept through Orange County because of contaminated water. [5][6] His father, James Madison, Sr. (1723–1801), was a tobacco planter who grew up on a plantation, then called Mount Pleasant, in Orange County, Virginia, which he had inherited upon reaching adulthood. He later acquired more property and slaves; with 5,000 acres (2,000 ha), he became the largest landowner and a leading citizen of Orange County, in the Piedmont. James Jr's mother, Nelly Conway Madison (1731–1829), was born at Port Conway, the daughter of a prominent planter and tobacco merchant and his wife. Madison's parents were married on September 15, 1749.
John Tyler was born on March 29, 1790 in Richmond, Virginia. His mother, a plantation heiress died of a stroke when Tyler was seven. After, the death of his mother he was raised by his father John Tyler Sr. John Tyler Sr. was a judge and taught young John a strict way of viewing the constitution. John Tyler studied at William and Mary College and while there he was under the influence of Bishop James Madison. BJM was the president of William and Mary College.
Edgar Allan Poe was a renown poet of the nineteenth century whose life was full of unfortunate events that jaded his writings. Edgar was born to the Poe family in 1809, however his original parents had either abandoned him or were dead by the time he was three. He was then adopted by John Allen, who moved around frequently due to his job as a merchant. Poe moved around a variety of schools, finally going to the University of Virgina in 1826. It was during this point in time that Poe and Allan had a falling out due to Poe’s debt.