Walt Whitman, one of the United States’ most celebrated poets, was born May 31, 1819, in West Hills, Huntington, Long Island, New York. He published his most famous work, Leaves of Grass, in 1855. He suffered a paralytic stroke in 1873, and soon thereafter went to live with his brother George in Camden, New Jersey, where he died March 26, 1892. Walt’s brother Thomas Jefferson Whitman (1833-1890) married Martha E. Mitchell (1836-1873) in 1859, and came to St. Louis in 1867. Their children were Mannahatta Whitman (1860-1886) and Jessie Louisa Whitman (1863-1957). He served as water commissioner of the city of St. Louis for many years, and died November 25, 1890. Another brother George Washington Whitman served in the 51st New York Infantry during the Civil War. He married Louise Orr Haslam (1842-1892) in 1871 and settled in Camden, where he died in 1901.