Quo Fuit places 7 dated presences for Nathaniel Hawthorne across 7 places, from 1804 to 1864.
Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Nathaniel Hawthorne (né Hathorne; July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was an American novelist and short story writer.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Every dot is a place Nathaniel Hawthorne is documented in, on a dated record. The interactive globe carries the full detail.
Where Nathaniel Hawthorne was documented, and when
4 July 1804exact date
Salem, Massachusettsattested“Nathaniel Hathorne, as his name was originally spelled, was born on July 4, 1804, in Salem, Massachusetts; his birthplace is preserved and open to the public.”source: Wikipedia: Nathaniel Hawthorne
1816year
Raymond, Maineattested“In the summer of 1816, the family lived as boarders with farmers before moving to a home recently built specifically for them by Hawthorne's uncles Richard and Robert Manning in Raymond, Maine, near Sebago Lake.”source: Wikipedia: Nathaniel Hawthorne
1816year
Sebago Lakeattested“In the summer of 1816, the family lived as boarders with farmers before moving to a home recently built specifically for them by Hawthorne's uncles Richard and Robert Manning in Raymond, Maine, near Sebago Lake.”source: Wikipedia: Nathaniel Hawthorne
October 1828month
Bowdoin Collegeattested“He graduated with the class of 1825, and later described his college experience to Richard Henry Stoddard: Hawthorne's first published work, Fanshawe: A Tale, based on his experiences at Bowdoin College, appeared anonymously in October 1…”source: Wikipedia: Nathaniel Hawthorne
March 1850month
Lenox, Massachusettsattested“Hawthorne and his family moved to a small red farmhouse near Lenox, Massachusetts, at the end of March 1850.”source: Wikipedia: Nathaniel Hawthorne
1851year
The Berkshiresattested“He was composing his novel Moby-Dick at the time, and dedicated the work in 1851 to Hawthorne: "In token of my admiration for his genius, this book is inscribed to Nathaniel Hawthorne." Hawthorne's time in the Berkshires was very product…”source: Wikipedia: Nathaniel Hawthorne
1864year
Philadelphiaattested“Ticknor died with Hawthorne at his side in Philadelphia in 1864; according to a friend, Hawthorne was left "apparently dazed".”source: Wikipedia: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Open Quo Fuit to see these 7 presences on the
globe, filter them by date, and follow the journey year by year.
Other places tied to Nathaniel Hawthorne in the record
In each of these, a source puts Nathaniel Hawthorne and the place in the same dated sentence without stating
that Nathaniel Hawthorne was there. They are kept apart from the timeline above for exactly that reason:
a mention is not a presence, and Quo Fuit does not quietly promote one into the other.
1819year
Salem, Massachusettsmentioned“Years later, Hawthorne looked back at his time in Maine fondly: "Those were delightful days, for that part of the country was wild then, with only scattered clearings, and nine tenths of it primeval woods." In 1819, he was sent back to S…”source: Wikipedia: Nathaniel Hawthorne
1819year
Mainementioned“Years later, Hawthorne looked back at his time in Maine fondly: "Those were delightful days, for that part of the country was wild then, with only scattered clearings, and nine tenths of it primeval woods." In 1819, he was sent back to S…”source: Wikipedia: Nathaniel Hawthorne
1821year
Bowdoin Collegementioned“With the financial support of his uncle, Hawthorne was sent to Bowdoin College in 1821, partly because of family connections in the area, and also because of its relatively inexpensive tuition rate.”source: Wikipedia: Nathaniel Hawthorne
17 January 1839exact date
Boston Custom Housementioned“He was offered an appointment as weigher and gauger at the Boston Custom House at a salary of $1,500 a year, which he accepted on January 17, 1839.”source: Wikipedia: Nathaniel Hawthorne
17 January 1839exact date
Bostonmentioned“He was offered an appointment as weigher and gauger at the Boston Custom House at a salary of $1,500 a year, which he accepted on January 17, 1839.”source: Wikipedia: Nathaniel Hawthorne
1841year
Brook Farmmentioned“He joined the transcendentalist Utopian community at Brook Farm in 1841, not because he agreed with the experiment but because it helped him save money to marry Sophia.”source: Wikipedia: Nathaniel Hawthorne
9 July 1842exact date
Bostonmentioned“Hawthorne married Sophia Peabody on July 9, 1842, at a ceremony in the Peabody parlor on West Street in Boston.”source: Wikipedia: Nathaniel Hawthorne
October 1845month
Salem, Massachusettsmentioned“I have business on earth now, and must look about me for the means of doing it." In October 1845, the Hawthornes moved to Salem.”source: Wikipedia: Nathaniel Hawthorne
1851 to 1852period
New Englandmentioned“While there, he wrote The House of the Seven Gables (1851), which poet and critic James Russell Lowell said was better than The Scarlet Letter and called "the most valuable contribution to New England history that has been made." He also…”source: Wikipedia: Nathaniel Hawthorne
1853year
Consulate of the United States in Liverpoolmentioned“With Pierce's election as President, Hawthorne was rewarded in 1853 with the position of United States consul in Liverpool shortly after the publication of Tanglewood Tales.”source: Wikipedia: Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Waysidementioned“The family returned to The Wayside in 1860, and that year saw the publication of The Marble Faun, his first new book in seven years.”source: Wikipedia: Nathaniel Hawthorne
19 May 1864exact date
Plymouth, New Hampshirementioned“While on a tour of the White Mountains, he died in his sleep on May 19, 1864, in Plymouth, New Hampshire.”source: Wikipedia: Nathaniel Hawthorne
19 May 1864exact date
Plymouthmentioned“While on a tour of the White Mountains, he died in his sleep on May 19, 1864, in Plymouth, New Hampshire.”source: Wikipedia: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Two people documented in the same place in the same year is a correlation, not a meeting.
Quo Fuit will never say they met without a source that says so.
How to read this page
Every line above is a dated fact taken from a source, with the sentence it came from and a link
back to it. Nothing is inferred, and a gap in the record is not evidence that someone was elsewhere.
A tag says how the fact is carried by its source: documented a structured,
explicitly dated record, attested a sentence that states the person was there,
mentioned a sentence that ties the person to the place without stating presence.
Sentences quoted from Wikipedia are available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Public domain books come from
Project Gutenberg. Quo Fuit claims no rights over these sources.
See Nathaniel Hawthorne on a 3D globe, filter the record by date, and cross this life with another to find
where the two overlap.
