Quo Fuit places 6 dated presences for Henry David Thoreau across 6 places, from 1821 to 1848.
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Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau; July 12, 1817 to May 6, 1862) was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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1821year
New Hampshireattested“Thoreau made profitable use of a graphite source found in New Hampshire that had been purchased in 1821 by his uncle, Charles Dunbar.”source: Wikipedia: Henry David Thoreau
Canton, Massachusettsattested“The traditional professions open to college graduates—law, the church, business, medicine—did not interest Thoreau, so in 1835 he took a leave of absence from Harvard, during which he taught at a school in Canton, Massachusetts, living f…”source: Wikipedia: Henry David Thoreau
1835year
Harvardattested“The traditional professions open to college graduates—law, the church, business, medicine—did not interest Thoreau, so in 1835 he took a leave of absence from Harvard, during which he taught at a school in Canton, Massachusetts, living f…”source: Wikipedia: Henry David Thoreau
4 July 1845exact date
Fairhaven Bayattested“I see no other alternative, no other hope for you." Thus, on July 4, 1845, Thoreau embarked on a two-year experiment in simple living, moving to a small house he had built on land owned by Emerson in a second growth forest around the sho…”source: Wikipedia: Henry David Thoreau
July 1848month
Americaattested“he surpasses everything we have had in America." The American author John Updike said of the book, "A century and a half after its publication, Walden has become such a totem of the back-to-nature, preservationist, anti-business, civil-d…”source: Wikipedia: Henry David Thoreau
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1839year
Walden Pondmentioned“At Walden Pond, Thoreau completed a first draft of A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, an elegy to his brother John, describing their trip to the White Mountains in 1839.”source: Wikipedia: Henry David Thoreau
1839year
White Mountains (New Hampshire)mentioned“At Walden Pond, Thoreau completed a first draft of A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, an elegy to his brother John, describing their trip to the White Mountains in 1839.”source: Wikipedia: Henry David Thoreau
August 1846month
Mount Katahdinmentioned“In August 1846, Thoreau briefly left Walden to make a trip to Mount Katahdin in Maine, a journey that was later recorded in "Ktaadn", the first part of The Maine Woods.”source: Wikipedia: Henry David Thoreau
August 1846month
Mainementioned“In August 1846, Thoreau briefly left Walden to make a trip to Mount Katahdin in Maine, a journey that was later recorded in "Ktaadn", the first part of The Maine Woods.”source: Wikipedia: Henry David Thoreau
Montrealmentioned“In the summer of 1850, Thoreau and Channing journeyed from Boston to Montreal and Quebec City.”source: Wikipedia: Henry David Thoreau
1850year
Bostonmentioned“In the summer of 1850, Thoreau and Channing journeyed from Boston to Montreal and Quebec City.”source: Wikipedia: Henry David Thoreau
1854year
Walden Pondmentioned“Over several years, as he worked to pay off his debts, he continuously revised the manuscript of what he eventually published as Walden, or Life in the Woods in 1854, recounting the two years, two months, and two days he had spent at Wal…”source: Wikipedia: Henry David Thoreau
1854 to 1861period
Philadelphiamentioned“Other travels took him southwest to Philadelphia and New York City in 1854 and west across the Great Lakes region in 1861, when he visited Niagara Falls, Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, St.”source: Wikipedia: Henry David Thoreau
1854 to 1861period
Niagara Fallsmentioned“Other travels took him southwest to Philadelphia and New York City in 1854 and west across the Great Lakes region in 1861, when he visited Niagara Falls, Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, St.”source: Wikipedia: Henry David Thoreau
1854 to 1861period
Great Lakesmentioned“Other travels took him southwest to Philadelphia and New York City in 1854 and west across the Great Lakes region in 1861, when he visited Niagara Falls, Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, St.”source: Wikipedia: Henry David Thoreau
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