This day in history, January 19th, 1809, a great poet was born. His name was Edgar Allen Poe. By the time he was three, both his parents had died, and his grandfather raised him. Once he got through school, and kicked out of the University of Virginia, he joined the military, and served for two years. He then got appointed to West Point. By 1836 he had published three poems, that had not gotten much attention. He soon became well known for writing horror stories such as, “The Tell Tale Heart”, and “The Fall of The House of Usher”. In 1844, he moved to New York, where he wrote his famous piece, “The Raven”. When he was working on a broadway show, his wife died of tuberculosis in 1847 and that drove him deeper into alcoholism. He then got engaged, but died before the wedding, because he was drinking at a party in Baltimore and was found three days later in a gutter, taken to the hospital, and died on October 7th, 1849, at the age of 40.