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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 1 1 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 1 1 Browse Search
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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), chapter 18 (search)
ndall.  7Emily Ann, b. Sept. 11, 1803; m. Aaron Traverse.  8Francis, b. Nov. 20, 1805; m. Mary Ann Frost.  9Lydia, b. Nov. 21, 1807; m. Thomas Marshall.  10Zechariah, b. Mar. 19, 1810.  11 Eliza B., b. July 22, 1813; m.1st, Ambrose Tucker. 2d, Anthony Nutter.  12Matilda O., b. Oct. 14, 1816; m. Charles Danforth. 2-4Thomas Shed m. Abigail H. Greenleaf, Dec. 18, 1808, and d. Dec. 9, 1849. He had children:--  4-13Abigail G., b. Nov. 22, 1809; m. George Sawyer.  14Sarah R., b. Dec. 8, 1811; m. Samuel Ward.  15William B., b. Oct. 24, 1813.  16Harriet G., b. Oct. 26, 1815.  17Helen M., b. May 29, 1818; m. Mathias Miner.  18Thomas A., b. Nov. 14, 1822.  19Franklin K., b. May 19, 1825; d. Feb. 22, 1848.  20Marshall S., b. Mar. 15, 1828; m. Emma A. Gibbs.  21Mary A., b. May 1, 1831; d. May 12, 1832.  22Convers Francis, b. Jan. 8, 1835; d. Aug. 13, 1853. 3-8Francis Shed, jun., m. Mary Ann Frost, of Tyngsboroa, May 23, 1829. She d. June 4, 1851, aged 42. He m.,
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 14: Poe (search)
e are few today who will not readily concede to him a place among the foremost writers of America, whether in prose or in verse, and there are not wanting those who account him one of the two or three writers of indisputable genius that America has produced. Poe was born at Boston, 19 January, 1809, the son of actor parents of small means and of romantic proclivities. Before the end of his third year he was left an orphan, his mother dying in wretched poverty at Richmond, Virginia, 8 December, 1811, and his father a few weeks later, if we may believe the poet's own statement. He was promptly taken under the protection of a prosperous tobacco exporter of Richmond, John Allan, in whose family he lived, ostensibly as an adopted child, until 1827. In his sixth year he attended for a short time the school of William Ewing in Richmond. In the summer of 1815 he went with his foster-father to England, and for the next five years, with the exception of a few months spent in Scotland sho