• Walt Whitman.” National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Feinberg, https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.76.95.
  • Whitman was born on May 31, 1819, in West Hills, New York, the second of nine children of Quaker parents Walter and Louisa Van Velsor Whitman,[7]...
  • The farmhouse was constructed by the poet’s father Walter Whitman Sr.—a house builder—prior to his marriage to Louisa Van Velsor in 1816.
  • The second of Louisa Van Velsor’s and Walter Whitman’s eight surviving children, he grew up in a family of modest means.
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  • İçindekiler tablosunu değiştir. Walt Whitman. ... Walter "Walt" Whitman (31 Mayıs 1819, New York – 26 Mart 1892, New Jersey), Amerikalı şair.
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  • In 1823 Walter Whitman, Sr., moved his growing family to Brooklyn , which was enjoying a boom.
  • He was the second child of Walter Whitman Sr., 34 years old and Louisa Van Velsor, a woman of Dutch and Welsh background, with a solidly Dutch family name.
  • 1848: Walter Whitman’s support for the Free-Soil wing of the Democratic Party led Walt Whitman to leave the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. ... Walter Whitman, Sr.
  • His father, Walter Whitman Sr., was of English ancestry, while his mother, Louisa Van Velsor, was of Dutch descent.
  • July 11 – Walter Whitman, Sr. dies. ... In Boston, he meets Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809- 1894) and Henry James (1843- 1916).
  • Walt Whitman Birthplace State Historic Site. ... Walter Whitman Sr. (14 Jul 1789 - certain 11 Jul 1855).
  • Whitman published his own enthusiastic review of Leaves of Grass. Critics and readers alike, however, found both Whitman’s style and subject matter unnerving.
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  • He was the second of nine children born to Walter Whitman Sr., a housebuilder, and Louisa Van Velsor. The Whitman family had a mixed heritage, with...