The Museum CollectionPoe's Parents in The Columbian Centinel for October 29, 1806
Detail of Ad for Belle's Stratagem
Ad for Belle's Stratagem
Poe's father is listed in the cast for Belle's Strategem, and Poe's mother is listed in the cast for The Padlock.
At the bottom of the ad is the announcement, "On no account whatever, will the smoking of Cigars by suffered, in any part of the Theater." 
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Description: Edgar Allan Poe's father, David Poe, Jr. is listed in this Boston newspaper as appearing in the role of Sir George Touchwood in Mrs. Cowley's comedy Belle's Stratagem on October 29, 1806. His wife, Eliza Poe is listed as performing the same night as Leonora in the muiscal afterpiece The Padlock.Poe's parents, the actors David Poe, Jr. (1784-1810?) and Eliza Poe (1787-1811) were married in April 1806 in Richmond. In October 1806, they appeared in on the stage in Boston, where theire first son, William Henry Leonard Poe, was born on January 30, 1807. Their second son, Edgar Poe, was born in Boston on January 19, 1809. Search CollectionCategories
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