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Whitman was married to Rachel Jones Foster in 1902, and they had four children: Hilda Trull (born 1908), Alan Foster (born 1909), Dunbar (born 1912), and Esther Huntington (born 1917). He died from a
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to composition and analysis. At the time of this death he was considered "one of the most popular professors at the university".
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critical edition of the poem. Whitman went on to take an assistant professorship at
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Abbot, Maine
Highland Park, New Jersey
Colby College
Yale University
Rutgers University
Rutgers University
Edmund Spenser
Abbot, Maine
Bangor High School
Bangor, Maine
Colby College
Yale University
Cynewulf
Albert Stanburrough Cook's
Lehigh University
declamation
coronary thrombosis
Highland Park, New Jersey


Maine: A History
The Christ of Cynewulf
"History: Classical vs. Modern Education"
"A History of Rutgers English"
the original
"Dr. Charles H. Whitman: Professor at Rutgers"
Daily News
"Dr. C. H. Whitman of Rutgers Dies"
The New York Times

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