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Bibliographical essay on Walter Whitman

Walt Whitman

Biography
Walt Whitman was born May 31, 1819 into a working class family in West Hills, New York. Walt is one of 8 eight children. Walt Whitman Sr. and Louisa Van Velsor, were his parents. Walt Whitman was born into the growing U.S. and was one of the first generations to be born in the new land.
Walt Sr. was a trained carpenter but had trouble finding work so he eventually took up farming. Walt Jr. had 2 sisters, Hanna Whitman and Mary Whitman, and 5 brothers, Jesse Whitman, Andrew Jackson Whitman, George Washington Whitman, Thomas Jefferson Whitman, and Edward Whitman. Hanna ended up marrying an abusive husband, Jesse became violent and mentally unstable, Andrew Jackson became an Alcoholic and married a prostitute before he died in 1863. The family farm had at one time been rather large, but had diminished greatly in size over the years. Eventually, Walt Whitman Sr. moved his family to Brooklyn where a population boom was occurring. Walt Sr. tried r...

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