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3 unusual facts about Severn Teackle Wallis


Severn Teackle Wallis

In September of that year Wallis was arrested with many members of the legislature and other citizens of the city and state (including the police marshal George Kane and mayor George Brown), and imprisoned for more than fourteen months in various forts.

He may have been an acquaintance of the budding poet and author Edgar Allan Poe along with his friend John Pendleton Kennedy.

He became a proficient in Spanish literature and history and was elected a corresponding member of the Royal Academy of history of Madrid in 1843.



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