Maryland; stories of her people and of her history . the singular and exquisite genius. 214 POE AND BOOTH Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston on January 19,1809; but he belonged to a Maryland family, honorable,and of long standing. The poets grandfather, GeneralDavid Poe, served with distinction in the Revolution andwas a friend of Lafayette. His eldest son, also namedDavid, was Edgar AllanPoes father. The poets mother wasElizabeth Arnold, anEnglish actress. DavidPoe gave up the studyof law and went on thestage with his wife. Itwas during one of theirtheatrical tours that Ed-gar Allan Poe was b
Maryland; stories of her people and of her history . the singular and exquisite genius. 214 POE AND BOOTH Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston on January 19,1809; but he belonged to a Maryland family, honorable,and of long standing. The poets grandfather, GeneralDavid Poe, served with distinction in the Revolution andwas a friend of Lafayette. His eldest son, also namedDavid, was Edgar AllanPoes father. The poets mother wasElizabeth Arnold, anEnglish actress. DavidPoe gave up the studyof law and went on thestage with his wife. Itwas during one of theirtheatrical tours that Ed-gar Allan Poe was had a brother and asister, children of thesame mother, a motherwhose memory Edgarloved passionately. Shedid not live long enoughfor her children to learn to love herself. She died atRichmond, Virginia, when Edgar was about three yearsold. The poets father had died not long before atNorfolk. They were in great distress at the time. It issaid, they were without money, food, fuel and two little children, Edgar and Rose, were almost. ELIZABETH ARNOLD From a miniature in the possession of J. H. Ingram 215 MARYLAND starved. The eldest child, William Henry Leonard, waswith his grandfather in Baltimore. The beautiful httle boy Edgar was adopted by JohnAllan, a merchant of Richmond, and in that city he pass-ed his childhood. His life was comfortable but Allan was not a wealthy man until Poe reached theage of sixteen. Edgar was taken to England by , and lived there for about five years near went to school and learned English, Latin, Frenchand Mathematics. The boy was Wery beautiful, yetbrave and manly, . . [and] a leader among hisplaymates. But he was spoiled and wayward, andretiring in disposition. At the age of seventeen, Poe entered the Universit}^ ofVirginia. Even then he wrote strange, wild stories whichhe would read aloud to a few friends gathered together inhis room. He was regular in his attendance and a suc-cessful student, but, l
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