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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine, on February 27 1807, as the second son to Stephen and Zilpah Wadsworth. Stephen Longfellow, his father, was a Harvard graduate and practicing law in Portland. ... While, on Longfellow’s mother’s side the prowess of the family was military rather than legal or political like his father’s. She was the daughter to General Peleg Wadsworth. Longfellow was named after his mother’s brother, Henry Wadsworth, a lieutenant in the Navy, who died heroically when an American fire ship on which he served, was voluntarily blown up before the walls of Tripoli to save it from falling in to the hands of the enemy. This was about three years before the birth of Longfellow.
Longfellow as a boy spent most of his months of the summer vacation in a great house his father had built in the country near the village of Hiram, which was about thirty miles from Portland, this was to know the old rural life of Maine as well as he did that of the town.
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