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Early Years

Edgar Poe was born on January 19, , in Boston, to traveling actors David Poe Jr. (a Baltimore, Maryland, native) and Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins (an emigrant from England).

Poe was the couple&#;s second of three children. His brother, William Henry Leonard Poe, was born in , and his sister, Rosalie Poe, was born in On December 8, , when Poe was just two years old, his mother died in Richmond.

His father, who had left the family in , died of unknown circumstances.

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Henry, as William Henry Leonard was known, lived with his grandparents in Baltimore, while Rosalie and Edgar remained in Richmond. William and Jane Mackenzie adopted Rosalie, and Edgar became the foster son of John and Frances Allan.

Poe received his middle name from his foster parents.

In Allan, a tobacco merchant, moved with his wife and foster son to England in an attempt to improve his business interests there. Poe attended school in Chelsea until , when the family returned to Richmond.

John Allan had always