- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born on February 27, 1807 in Portland, Maine, USA. He was a writer, known for Evangeline, Temple of Our Fathers and The Wreck of the Hesperus (1948). He was married to Frances Elizabeth Appleton and Mary Storer Potter. He died on March 24, 1882 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
- SpousesFrances Elizabeth Appleton(1843 - 1861) (her death, 6 children)Mary Storer Potter(1831 - 1835) (her death)
- Pictured on the 1¢ US postage stamp in the Famous American/Poets series, issued 16 February 1940.
- Pictured on the 39¢ US postage stamp in the Literary Arts series, issued 15 March 2007.
- Elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1900. (inaugural election).
- One of America's most beloved and widely read poets, he is best known for "Evangeline" (1847), "The Song of Hiawatha" (1855) and "The Courtship of Miles Standish" (1858).
- O star of morning and of liberty!
- If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
- I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.
- [on excellence] In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
- All your strength is in union. All your danger is in discord.
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