Edgar Allan Poe's life

        Edgar Poe was born January 19, 1809, to David and Elizabeth Poe. Elizabeth divorced David, then Died shortly after, when Edgar was 2 years old. Edgar was then adopted by the Allans. When Poe was 17, he started attending the University of Virginia, without much help from his adoptive father. He began drinking heavily and dropped out less than a year later. Poe traveled back to Boston and joined th4e U.S. Army in 1827, at the age of 18. He did reasonably well in the Army, and started attending Westpoint Academy. He dropped out soon because his father refused to send him any money.
       In 1831, Edgar Allan Poe went to New York City where he had some of his poetry published. He submitted stories to a number of magazines and they were all rejected. Poe had no friends, no job, and was in financial trouble. He sent a letter to John Allan begging for help but none came. John Allan died in 1834 and did not mention Edgar in his will.In 1835, Edgar finally got a job as an editor of a newspaper because of a contest he won with his story, "The Manuscript in a Bottle". In 1836, Edgar married his cousin, Virginia. He was 27 and she was 13.
        Poe found himself without a regular job once again. He tried to start a magazine called The Stylus and failed. In 1843, he published some booklets containing a few of his short stories but they didn't sell well enough. He won a hundred dollars for his story, "The Gold Bug" and sold a few other stories to magazines but he barely had enough money to support his family. In 1845, Edgar Poe became an editor at The Broadway Journal. A year later, the Journal ran out of money and Poe was out of a job again. He and his family moved to a small cottage near what is now East 192nd Street. Virginia's health was fading and Edgar was deeply distressed by it. Virginia died in 1847, 10 days after Edgar's birthday. After losing his wife, Poe collapsed from stress but gradually returned to health later that year.
        In June of 1849, Poe left New York and went to Philadelphia. He stayed at the Swan Tavern Hotel but joined "The Sons of Temperance" in an effort to stop drinking. He renewed a boyhood romance with Sarah Royster Shelton and planned to marry her in October. On September 30, he meant to go to New York but supposedly took the wrong train to Baltimore. On October 3, Poe was found at Gunner's Hall, a public house at 44 East Lombard Street, and was taken to the hospital. He lapsed in and out of consciousness but was never able to explain exactly what happened to him. Edgar Allan Poe died in the hospital on Sunday, October 7, 1849.