Life Span
to
Full name
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Place of Birth
Salem, MA
Burial Place
Concord, MA
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Origins
Free State
No. of Spouses
1
No. of Children
3
Family
Nathaniel Hathorne (father - son added the "w" to Hawthorne), Sophia Peabody (wife)
Education
Other
Other Education
Bowdoin College
Occupation
Diplomat
Writer or Artist
Relation to Slavery
White non-slaveholder
Political Parties
Democratic
Other Affiliations
Transcendentalists
Government
Pierce Administration (1853-57)
Diplomat
Date Event
Famous writer Nathaniel Hawthorne, dies in his sleep while touring New Hampshire's White Mountains
Nathaniel Hawthorne is buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, Massachusetts
How to Cite This Page: "Hawthorne, Nathaniel," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hddev.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/12979.