Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809 as Edgar Poe. He was the second son of Elizabeth Arnold Poe and David Poe. Both parents were actors, and shortly after Poe's birth, his father left the family around 1810. Edgar became an adopted child before the age of three, when his mother died on December 8, 1811 in Richmond, Virginia, at the age twenty years old. four years. His father died at the age of twenty-seven. After his mother's death. John and Frances Allan welcomed Poe. His paternal grandparents welcomed his brother William Henry; and the adoptive parents cared for her sister Rosalie. Allan was a stern man and worked as a tobacco salesman and his wife was not a very good parent. Poe was helped by Allan's help, in private school, excelling in Latin, writing verse and declamations. However he was despised by the upper class of society, perhaps because Poe was never legally adopted by the Allans, he was considered an outsider by the Richmond elite. However, being the son of a former actor might also have added to his reputation for not fitting in with the Richmond culture of the time. The loss of his mother at an early age definitely affected Poe: "The angels, whispering among themselves, may find, among their ardent terms of love, none so devoted as that of 'Mother.'" In Tamerlane, he not only wrote of his father, but he also wrote about his mother. He had more respect for his mother than for his father. Tamerlane speaks much more kindly of his mother: "Oh, she was worthy of all the love! Love – as mine was in childhood – was such as angelic minds above envy; her young heart the sanctuary on which all my hopes and thoughts rest..." He thought about life with his mother and what it might have been like. In 1831 Poe moved to Baltimore to live with his aunt, Maria Clemm..