Text: Anonymous (possibly the editor, James Clark), Huntingdon Journal (Huntingdon, PA), vol. XIV, no. 41, October 23, 1849, p. 2, col. 5

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DEATH OF E. A. POE. — We regret to learn that Edgar A. Poe, a distinguished scholar and critic died in Baltimoae [[Baltimore]] on Sunday, after a brief illness, in his 38th year. He was a man of decided genius, and a terse and forcible writer, whose merits were everywhere acknowledged, notwithstanding many excentricities, which in a measure detracted his usefulness. — Literature has lost in him an ornament, and a large circle of warm friends will hear of his death with poignant regret.