1George Thomas Little, Henry Sweetser Burrage, and Albert Roscoe Stubbs, Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine, Vol. 1, pp. 240-242 (1909).
"(VI) Henry Wadsworth, second son of Stephen (4) and Zilpah (Wadsworth) Longfellow, was born in Portland, Maine, February 27, 1807, and died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 24, 1882, aged seventy-five. His birthplace is at the north corner of Fore and Hancock streets. At the age of fourteen he gave decided indications of poetic taste, and anonymous pieces from his pen were at that time published in a Portland newspaper.
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Henry W. Longfellow married (first) September 14, 1831, Mary Storer Potter, daughter of Judge Barrett Potter of Portland. She was born May 12, 1812, and died at Rotterdam, Holland, November 29, 1835, aged twenty-three. He married (second) July 13, 1843, Frances Elizabeth Appleton, of Boston, born October 6, 1817, and died a tragic death by burning, July 9, 1861, aged forty-three years. She was the daughter of Nathan Appleton of Boston. Their children were: Charles Appleton, Ernest Wadsworth, Frances (died Young), Alice Mary, Edith and Anne Allegra.".