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Whitman, Walt 1819-1892
Poet; born in West Hills, Long Island, N. Y., May 31, 1819; received a public school education; learned the printer's trade; taught school for a time; and later learned the carpenter's trade.
During the Civil War he was a nurse in the Federal military hospitals; and was a government clerk in 1865-73.
He was editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle; a contributor to the Democratic review; established The Freedman in 1850; and wrote Drum Taps; Leaves of grass, etc. He died in Camden, N. J., March 26, 1892.