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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on July 4, 1804, the only son and second child of Nathaniel and Elizabeth Manning Hawthorne (the "w" in is last name was added when he became an adult). At the age of four, he lost his father, who was diagnosed with yellow fever and died in Suriname, Dutch Guiana. After his father death his mother, Elizabeth Manning Hawthorne took Nathaniel and his two sisters, Elisabeth and Louisa, to live with Elizabeth's family in Salem, Massachusetts.
In 1818, when Nathaniel was fourteen he and his family moved to Raymond,

Maine, where the Manning family owned a home. A year later Nathaniel moved back to

Salem, where he attended Samuel Archer's school. A couple years later, after being

privately tutored by Benjamin L. Oliver, he enrolled at Bowdoin College in Brunswick,

Maine where he earned his bachelors degree. Hawthorne's classmates included Henry

Wadsworth Longfellow and Franklin Pierce, who would become the future......

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