The 146-lb. Raven That Haunted Yale
Creators Syndicate
Edgar Allan Poe, the American poet who died in Baltimore at just 40 years of age in 1849, will long be remembered for the poem he published in 1845 about a raven that entered his home and haunted him from a perch above the front door.
A few generations later, a member of Poe’s clan would similarly haunt Yale.
John Prentiss Poe, who served as Maryland’s attorney general in…