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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

American “Fireside” Poet

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Stephen Longfellow 
  • Mother:
  • Zilpah Wadsworth   
  • Birth Date:
  • 27 Feb 1807 
  • Birth Location:
  • Portland, Cumberland, Maine 
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  • Death Date:
  • 24 Mar 1882 
  • Death Location:
  • Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Notes: 

  • American “Fireside” Poet

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is often listed among the Fireside Poets. The group consisted of the first American poets whose popularity rivaled that of British poets. It is often said to include John Greenleaf Whittier, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Cullen Bryant, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and James Russell Lowell.

• Marriages for Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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  • Spouse:
  • Mary Storer Potter

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  • Spouse:
  • Frances Elizabeth Appleton

• Sources for Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 08/11/2011).
  • ² Currier, John J., "Ould Newbury": Historical and Biographical Sketches, Boston: Damrell and Upham (1896), 311.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 182.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 174.
  • ⁵ Wikipedia, "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow", (accessed 08/11/2011).