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henry david thoreau was a good man

Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts on July 12,

1817 ("Thoreau" 96), on his grandmother's farm. Thoreau, who was of

French-Huguenot and Scottish-Quaker ancestry, was baptized as David Henry

Thoreau, but at the age of twenty he legally changed his name to Henry

David. Thoreau was raised with his older sister Helen, older brother John,

and younger sister Sophia (Derleth 1) in genteel poverty (The 1995 Grolier

Multimedia Encyclopedia 1). It quickly became evident that Thoreau was

interested in literature and writing. At a young age he began to show

interest writing, and he wrote his first essay, "The Seasons," at the

tender age of ten, while attending Concord Academy (Derleth 4).



In 1833, at the age of sixteen, Henry David was accepted to Harvard

University, but his parents could not afford the cost of tuition so his

sister, Helen, who had begun to teach, and his aunts offered......

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