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Spouses: Mary Storer Potter ... Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator.
The Longfellow House Trust was created by the surviving children of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and their spouses in 1913, with the first indenture being signed on October 28 of that year. [49] The purpose of the Trust was to preserve the home of their father for its historical significance so that it could remain for future generations as a ...
He married Zilpah Wadsworth in 1804 and, with her, had eight children, including the poets Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Samuel Longfellow. He served as a member of the general court of Massachusetts in 1814 and 1815. He belonged to the Federalist Party and was a delegate to the Hartford Convention in 1814 and 1815. He also served as a ...
Spouses: Maria Theresa Gold ... (1819–1861), who married the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in 1843. George William Appleton (1826–1827), who died in infancy.
Ernest Longfellow was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and raised at Craigie House. He was the second of six children, including his younger sister Alice Mary Longfellow . Educated at Harvard College , he passed the winter of 1865 and '66 in Paris in work and study, and the summers of 1876 and '77 in Villiers-le-Bel under Couture . [ 1 ]
Richard Henry Dana IV (1879–1933), a World War I conscientious objector and architect. [12] Henry "Harry" Wadsworth Longfellow Dana (1881–1950), [13] who became a gay liberationist, previously acquitted of a 1935 morals arrest. [14] Frances Appleton Dana (1883–1933), [15] who married Henry Casimir de Rham, a grandson of Charles de Rham ...
A group portrait of the three Longfellow daughters by Thomas Buchanan Read was widely reproduced and distributed along with the poem. A copy of the print was found near the body of a soldier at the American Civil War Battle of Gettysburg after the July 1 – July 3, 1863 battle, now held by the Maine Historical Society . [ 4 ]
It was the home of noted American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow for almost 50 years, and it had previously served as the headquarters of General George Washington (1775–76). The house was built in 1759 for Jamaican plantation owner John Vassall Jr. , who fled the Cambridge area at the beginning of the American Revolutionary War because of ...