Edgar Allan Poe

Poe was born in Boston Massachusetts on January 19, 1809. He was the second child of David Poe Junior and Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe. His parents were actors and actresses, which inspired Edgar's name from a play they were in; in 1809. "The King's Lear" written by William Shakespeare, from which a characters name was given to their son. Edgar Poe had two siblings, an older brother William Henry Leonard Poe, and his younger sister Rosalie Poe. One year after Edgar's birth his father abandoned the family; then a year after that his mother died from Pulmonary Tuberculosis. So Edgar was taken into the home of John Allan; hence how he got the name Edgar Allan Poe. His successful Scottish foster family sold a variety of items, like tobacco, wheat, cloth, slaves, and tombstones. 

Poe was later baptized in the Episcopal Church in 1812. Poe was considered spoiled and aggressively disciplined. Since he was the only child the couple of John Allan and his wife Frances Valentine Allan had. In 1815 the couple sailed to England, while Poe went to the Irvine School of Grammar in Scotland where his foster dad grew up. But it was for a short amount of time, and later in the year he sailed to england rejoining the family. There Poe studied in Chelsea at a boarding school until the summer of 1817. Then he entered Reverend John Bransby's Manor House School in Stoke Newington, about four miles north of London.