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Title: The Wadsworth-Longfellow house; Longfellow's old home, Portland, Maine; its history and its occupants
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Goold, Nathan, 1846-1914 Maine Historical Society
Subjects: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882
Publisher: (Portland, Me.) Maine Historical Society
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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CK OF THE LIVING ROOM. in Portland, after the tire of 18(i(). She was a l)enefactor of several nnder-takino-s and is the largest contrilmtor to the fund for the preservation of herbirthplace, to this time. She had no children. Kllen, the next, died in1834, at sixteen. The youngest was Samuel, horn in 1S19, a graduate ofHarvard College, a Unitarian clergyman and the author of many hymns.He was loved and esteemed, never married, and died in Portland, in 1892,aged seventy-three years. A Longfellow family ditty was :— Stephen and HenryEIizbeth and Anne Ale.x. and MaryEllen and Sam. AVilliam Willis, the historian, said of Hon. Stephen I.ongleUow : —No man more surely gained the contidence of all who apjMoaehed him orheld it firmer: and those who knew him best loved him most. Mr. Longfellow was the son of ,Judge Stei)hen Longfellow, of Gorham,Maine, the grandson of Stephen Longfellow, the first schoolmaster of Port-land, who was also the son of Stephen. The poets father, graduated at 12
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Copyriglit r.W2, by Lamson Studio FRONT OF THE LIVING ROOM. ,H.)\VING THE PUKTS FAVOKITK CHAIR AND H.uv.nl CUese in 1798, was a Select.uan, Judge ,.£ .h« C,n,r of Conn mpi ripresentative t„ the Gene... Court, State ««-^t;-» ^^^ttive to Const-ess i,t 1823-5. He died in this house ,n 1849, aged se^entJthvee yeat-si-andhis wife in 18.51, at ^^^^^^^ ._,.,„ „, „,„„,,, The noet wrote in his journal, Maicli iz, looi..hot-e I 1 took leave of he lay tny tnothef, to welco.ne and taUe leave o■» T s.it -ill th-it nio-ht alone with hei-,- without ten-or, almostr^arrow! r fil ^ .>een l.,. death. A sense of pea. can.over n,e as if there had been no shock or ,ar ,n nature, hut ,. h.un,on„u,._ X:^!nt front roont over the parlor atrd the father and Mrs.Piere-in the front room over the living or sitting room. H myW. Lon.fellow lived here during his childhood, vhood -dvounl marhood, and here he ean.e, to his old hontc, to t e end o ,s eHeTewere the scenes of his bringing up and h

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