Item 100200 - Henry W. Longfellow 2nd, Portland, ca. 1851
- Item 100200 - Henry W. Longfellow 2nd, Portland, ca. 1851
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Image Info Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2nd (1839-1874) was the son of Marianna Preble Longfellow and Stephen Longfellow, and nephew of the poet, his namesake, Henry W. Longfellow.
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His parents divorced when "Hen" was about ten, and he moved into the Wadsworth-Longfellow house where his father had been raised. He became a ward of Anne Longfellow Pierce. He attended Harvard in 1859, worked as a mariner, and served in the Civil War.
In 1863, he married Frances Gammon and they had three children. Hen, who suffered from alcoholism, died at the age of 34.
