Henry Wadsworth Longfellow^[1]

1807 - 1882  (75 years)

• Name	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow  [2, 3, 4]
  Birth	27 Feb 1807	Portland, Cumberland Co., Maine   [2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	24 Mar 1882	Cambridge, Middlesex Co., MA   [2, 3, 4]
  Person ID	I4414	Main
  Last Modified	7 Nov 2004

  
  

  Father	Stephen Longfellow,   b. 23 Mar 1776, Gorham, Cumberland, Maine d. Yes, date unknown
  Mother	Zilpah Wadsworth,   b. 6 Jan 1778, Duxbury, Plymouth, MA d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	1 Jan 1804	Gorham, York, Maine
  Family ID	F1764	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 27 Feb 1807 - Portland, Cumberland Co., Maine Death - 24 Mar 1882 - Cambridge, Middlesex Co., MA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  American poet, who was instrumental in reestablishing a public audiencefor poetry in the United States. He was born in Portland, Maine (then in Massachusetts). In late 1835, during a trip to Europe, Longfellow's wife, Mary Storer Potter, died in the Netherlands. In 1843 he married FannyAppleton. Longfellow was devastated in 1861 when his second wife was burned to death in a household accident. He commemorated her shortly before his own death with the sonnet"The Cross of Snow" (1879). Longfellow received wide public recognition with his initial volume ofverse, Voices of the Night (1839). His subsequent poetic works include Ballads (1841), which includes the poems "The Wreck of the Hesperus,""The Village Blacksmith,""The Skeleton in Armor," and "Excelsior"; and three notable long narrative poems on American themes: Evangeline (1847), The Song of Hiawatha (1855), and The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858).Longfellow's other works include Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863), containing the well-known poem "Paul Revere's Ride." In 1884 a bust of Longfellow was placed in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey in London; he was the first American to be thus honored. LL.D, D.C.L. Was a descendant of John and Priscilla Alden. He graduated with Hawthorne at Bowdoin college in 1825 [2, 3, 4]

  
  

• Sources

  [SAuth] John Spencer Howell, Jr., John Spencer Howell, Jr., (http://www.jhowell.com/ jhowell@jhowell.com). [S1021] Sharon Bearce, (Rootsweb), http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=ourfamily2003&id=I61802. [S1012] Mary Elizabeth Bedwell, Genealogical History of the Whitman, Bedwell and related, (Commonwealth Press; Richmond, VA; 1974). [S1013] Leon Bazalgette, Walt Whitman, The Man and His Work, (Translated from the French by Ellen Fitzgerald).