Longfellow (Henry Wadsworth) is born in Portland, Maine.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow graduates from Bowdoin College, studies in Europe, returns to teach at Bowdoin and marries Mary Potter in 1831. After her death, he comes to Boston in 1836 to become a professor of modern languages and belles-lettres at Harvard College. Longfellow lives initially on Cedar Street, marries Fanny Appleton in 1843,* and moves to Cambridge. A linguist, scholar, he becomes the most popular American poet of his time, and author of one of the most famous Boston poems in history in 1860.* Longfellow dies in Cambridge on March 24, 1882, and is buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery.