Edgar Poe was born on January 19, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts. His father was David Poe Jr. and his mother was Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe. Both were actors. Edgar had an older brother named William Henry Leonard Poe and a younger sister named Rosalie Poe. In 1810, their father abandoned them and, within a year, their mother died of consumption. Edgar went to live with John Allan, a Scottish tobacco merchant living in Richmond, Virginia. His brothers and sisters went to other families. The Allan family was quite well off and Edgar lived a good life with them. As a sign of respect for his adoptive family, Edgar took the middle name Allan and became known as Edgar Allan Poe. In 1815, the Allans and Edgar traveled to England, where Edgar began attending school. In 1815 he attended grammar school in Irvine, Scotland, and at a boarding school in Chelsea in 1817. After this he attended Reverend John Bransby's Manor House School in Stoke Newington, near London. In 1826, he joined the University of Virginia, but left after a year. Even though the Allans were quite well off, John Allan would not give Edgar a lot of money for his survival at college. To compensate for the lack of money, Edgar started gambling and lost a lot. His gambling debts created further divisions between him and John Allan. Poe was poor and needed money. He therefore joined the American army under the assumed name of Edgar A. Perry. He served for two years and rose to the rank of sergeant major. In 1829, Poe moved to Baltimore, Maryland to live with his widowed aunt Maria Clemm and his cousin Virginia Eliza Clemm. His older brother Henry also lived with them. The same year, Poe's adoptive mother, Francis Allan, died. She made one final request to John Allan to reconcile the differences between him and Poe. John Allan therefore obtained a commission for Poe to enter the United States Military Academy at West Point. In the same year, Poe also published another volume of poems entitled "Al Aaraaf Tamerlane and Minor Poems". Poe joined West Point in 1830, but he and John Allan had not yet reconciled their differences. When John remarried, feuds arose between them over the numerous affairs and children John had fathered in and out of wedlock..