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Then in 1863, during the American Civil War, Longfellow's oldest son, Charles Appleton Longfellow, joined the Union Army without his father's blessing. Longfellow was informed by a letter dated March 14, 1863, after Charles had left. "I have tried hard to resist the temptation of going without your leave but I cannot any longer", he wrote.
Portrait of Ernest Longfellow, c. early 20th century. Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow (1845–1921) was an American artist in Boston, Massachusetts, and New York. He was the son of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Frances "Fanny" Elizabeth Appleton (1819–1861) ∞ 1843: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) Charles Appleton Longfellow (1844–1893) Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow (1845–1921) ∞ 1868: Harriet "Hattie" Spelman; Fanny Longfellow (1847–1848) Alice Mary Longfellow (1850–1928) Edith Longfellow (1853–1915) ∞ Richard Henry Dana III ...
We've seen eloquently written real estate listings for luxurious and quirky homes—long, drawn out adjectives and picture-perfect descriptions aplenty. But we've never read anything quite like ...
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Franklin County, Ohio. This is a list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Franklin County, Ohio, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may ...
Fanny Appleton Longfellow, with sons Charles and Ernest, circa 1849 The small collection Poems on Slavery was published in 1842 as Longfellow's first public support of abolitionism. However, as Longfellow himself wrote, the poems were "so mild that even a Slaveholder might read them without losing his appetite for breakfast". [ 59 ]
He married Zilpah Wadsworth in 1804 and, with her, had eight children, including the poets Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Samuel Longfellow. He served as a member of the general court of Massachusetts in 1814 and 1815. He belonged to the Federalist Party and was a delegate to the Hartford Convention in 1814 and 1815. He also served as a ...
Longfellow would have been 18 years old during most of the trip. The family members on the trip were Longfellow's father, her maternal aunts and Uncle Samuel Longfellow, her Uncle Tom Appleton, her siblings and new sister-in-law, and the family governess Hannah Davie. They visited England, Scotland, France, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium ...