Edgar Poe was born on January 19, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts. His father was David Poe Jr. and his mother was Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe. Both were actors. Edgar had an older brother named William Henry Leonard Poe and a younger sister named Rosalie Poe. In 1810 their father abandoned them and within a year their mother died of consumption. Edgar went to live with John Allan, a Scottish tobacco merchant who lived in Richmond, Virginia. His brothers went to other families. The Allan family was quite wealthy and Edgar lived a good life with them. Out of respect for his adoptive family, Edgar took the middle name of Allan and became known as Edgar Allan Poe. In 1815, the Allans together with Edgar traveled to England, where Edgar began attending school. In 1815, he attended the Grammar School in Irvine, Scotland, and a boarding school in Chelsea in 1817. Subsequently, he attended the Reverend John Bransby's Manor House School in Stoke Newington near London. In 1826 he enrolled at the University of Virginia, but left within a year. Although the Allans were quite wealthy, John Allan would not have given Edgar much money for his survival in college. To compensate for the smaller amount of money, Edgar began gambling and lost heavily. His gambling debts created further rifts between him and John Allan. Poe was poor and needed money. So he joined the US Army under the assumed name Edgar A. Perry. He served for two years and rose to the rank of Sergeant Major. In 1829, Poe moved to Baltimore, Maryland to live with his widowed aunt Maria Clemm and his cousin Virginia Eliza Clemm. His older brother Henry also lived with them. The same year Poe's adoptive mother, Francis Allan, died. On his deathbed he made a request to John Allan to reconcile the differences between himself and Poe. Thus John Allan obtained an appointment for Poe to enter the United States Military Academy at West Point. In the same year Poe also published another volume of poems titled "Al Aaraaf Tamerlane and Minor Poems". Poe joined West Point in 1830, but he and John Allan had not yet reconciled their differences. When John remarried, arguments broke out between the two over the numerous affairs and children John had fathered both in and out of marriage..