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About John Thoreau, Jr.
Thoreau was subsequently supported by his older brother and sister, who were both schoolteachers, in being educated at Harvard. Thoreau's older brother, John, had suddenly died of Tetanus in 1842 and this fatalty had had a very deep personal impact on him. Thoreau set out to write a work in memory of his brother by attempting to set down something of their experiences in their canoe trip of 1839. This work was eventually titled "A week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers" and was to become Thoreau's first published full length work in 1849.
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John Thoreau, Jr.'s Timeline
| 1814 |
July 5, 1814
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Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
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| 1842 |
January 12, 1842
Age 27
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Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
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Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Massachusetts, United States
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