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tributors. This same year he won a luin- dred dollar prize with his story "The Gold- Bug." In 1842 he left "Graham's Magazine'' and in 1844 became editorial as- sistant on the "Evening Mirror," then con- ducted by X. P. Willis, and in its columns in 1845 first published "The Raven." In

1846. after an unsuccessful attempt to con- duct the "Broadway Journal," he withdrew to Fordham, Xew York, where on January 30, 1847, his wife died, and he became a complete recluse. Poe's works include: "Tamerlane and Other Poems" (1827) ; "Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems" (1829); "Poems" (1831); **A Manuscript Found in a Bottle" ("Saturday Visitor," ^^33^ '* "Berenice" ("Southern Literary Mes- senger," 1834) ; "The Fall of the House of Usher" ("Gentleman's Magazine.'* 1840); (iJ^40) ; "The Murders in the Rue Morgue ("Gentleman's Magazine," 1841 ) : "The Gold-Bug" ("Dollar Magazine," 1842) : "The Raven (1845) ; "The Literati of Xew York'' ("Godey's Lady's Book.'* 1846); "Eureka, a Prose Poem" (1847); "Ulalume," "The Bells" and "Annabel Lee." written after
 * The Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque"

1847. Rufus \V. Griswold prepared a memoir of Poe which he published in 1880. Mrs. Sarah Helen Whitman wrote "Edgar A. Poe and His Critics" (1859); William Fearing Gill (q. v.) refuted certain state- ments of Griswold in **The Life of Edgar Allan Poe" (1876), and George F. Wood- bury wrote "Edgar Allan Poe," for the "American Men of Letters" (1885). The Baltimore school teachers erected a monu- ment to Poe, 1875, ^^^ the actors of the L'nited States placed a memorial in the Metropolitan Museum in 1885. Edwin Booth and William Winter officiating. The Poe

Memorial Association unveiled a bust of Foe by Zolnay at the University of Vir- ginia, October, 1899, William Fearing Gill, Hamilton W. Mabie and Robert Burns Wil- son assisting, and a cenotaph erected in his memory was unveiled in Baltimore, Mary- land, October, 1899. He is recognized as the father of the "Short Story," and he was probably the most original American poet. The sale of his works surpasses that of any other on the market. He died in Baltimore, Maryland, October 7, 1849.

Broaddus, Andrew, born in Caroline county. Virginia, Xovember 4, 1770. He united with the Baptist church in 1788. and soon afterwards became a preacher. In 182 1 he was assistant pastor of a church in Richmond, and in 1832 was chosen modera- tor of the Dover Baptist Association. He re- ceived many calls from important churches ill Xorthern as well as Southern cities, but could not be induced to leave the country, and labored incessantly until his death, at Salem. Virginia. December i. 1848. With Tmitcd education, his fine natural abilities and impressive oratorical powers made him a powerful pulpiteer. He published a "His- tory of the Bible." **A Catechism," "A Form of Church Discipline," and the Dover and X'irginia selections of hymns. As late as 1852 Dr. Jeter published his memoirs and some of his sermons.

Blair, Francis Preston, born at Abingdon, \'irginia, April 12. 1791. He was of Scotch descent, and a great grandson of John Pres- ton (q. V. i. 308). He was educated at Tran- sylvania (Kentucky) University, and stud- ied law. but never engaged in practice, entering almost immediately upon a public and political career. Soon after leaving the

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