WRITERS AND SCHOLARS
1. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL..His stock was distinctly of English origin.
2. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES..Dutch and Puritan ancestry.
3. EDGAR ALLAN POE……..From his father he inherited Italian, French, and Irish blood. His mother, Elizabeth Arnold, was purely English.
4. HENRY W. LONGFELLOW….English descent.
5. RALPH WALDO EMERSON….English descent.
6. JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER..He was of Quaker and Huguenot descent.
7. WASHINGTON IRVING……Scotch descent.
8. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE….English descent.