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Playbill for The Curfew, presented "For the Benefit of Mr. and Mrs. Poe" on May 27, 1807. Poe was born in Baltimore, Maryland.His father, David Poe Sr., had emigrated from Dring in Kildallan parish, County Cavan, Ireland, to the United States around the year 1750, [1] and was well known for his patriotic self-sacrifice as a quartermaster during the American Revolution, paying for supplies out ...
Edgar Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 19, 1809, the second child of American actor David Poe Jr. and English-born actress Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe. He had an elder brother, Henry, and a younger sister, Rosalie. [6] Their grandfather, David Poe, had emigrated from County Cavan, Ireland, around 1750. [7]
The Baltimore-born David Poe Jr. saw Eliza performing in Norfolk, Virginia, and decided to join her acting troupe, abandoning his family's plans for him to study law. [5] Poe married Eliza only six months after Hopkins's death in 1806.
Art Poe; David Poe Jr. Edgar Allan Poe; Edgar Allan Poe (attorney general) Eliza Poe; Henry Poe; John Prentiss Poe; Johnny Poe; Neilson Poe; Neilson Poe (American football) Rosalie Mackenzie Poe; Samuel Poe; Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe
Conrad Poe (1948–2010), Filipino actor; David Poe Jr. (1784–1811), American actor; father of writer Edgar Allan Poe; Dontari Poe (born 1980), American football player; Ebenezer W. Poe (1846–1898), American politician; Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic
Poe was born in December 1810 in Norfolk, Virginia, the daughter of English-born actress Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe and American actor David Poe Jr. [4] The family faced financial hardship and her mother suffered from pneumonia and tuberculosis.
Poe family tree. Virginia Eliza Clemm was born in 1822 [1] and named after an older sister who had died at age two [2] only ten days earlier. [3] Her father William Clemm, Jr. was a hardware merchant in Baltimore. [4]
In 1807 Polyanthos was involved in an incident with American actor David Poe Jr. and English-born actress Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe, the parents of Edgar Allan Poe. [12] [9] Initially Buckingham was supportive of the Poes in his magazine, [9] but later critiqued the actors by writing that "Mrs. Poe was a green Little Pickle. We never knew ...