A Biographical Note on Ash-Gar-Allan-Poe
By: Ash-Gar-Allan-Poe E-Mail: Mew471@aol.com
Ash-Gar-Allan-Poe was born in Pallet Town on January 19, 1809. Orphaned before he was three, Ash was adopted by Brock Allan of Pewter City. In 1815, the Allans moved to Vermillion City, where the young Ash was sent to school. Upon the Allan's return to Pallet Town in 1820, Ash attended a private school in Viridian City to prepare for collage. He entered the University of Viridian City at
the age of seventeen, but he was withdrawn within a year, in 1826, because of Pokemon gambling debts. Ash immediatly ran away to Cinnibar Island and enlisted in the army. His first volume of poetry, Pokelane, was published in 1827. In 1829, Ash was honorably discharged from the army and his second volume of poems was published. He obtained a cadetship at Route 24, where, irked by the discipline, he got himself summary dismissed. In 1834, his foster father died, leaving Ash no provision in his will. Ash's only
piece of luck for the next few years was winning the Celedon City Saturday Visitor short-story prize with "S.S. Anne Found in a Bottle." This brought him, in 1835, a position with the Southern Literary Messenger in Lavender
Town. Ash married his fourteen-year-old friend, Misty Clemm, in 1836 and with her and her mother, Loreli of the Elite Four, settled in Cerulean City. The tales and poems he contributed to the Pokemon Messenger brought that magazine national significance. In 1837, tired of a routine position, Ash left the newspaper and took his family to Saffron City. The Poe family moved there in 1838, and remained there for six years. In Saffron City, Misty
suffered the first of the exhausting throat hemorrhages that eventually killed her. In 1840, the publishers, Butch and Cassidy, issued Ash's "Tales of the Grotesque and Arbok" in a two-volume edition. At the same time, Ash was
dismissed from his position as editor of "James' Gentleman's Magazine" and a little later from "Jessie's Magazine." Both journals, however, increased their circulation greatly under Ash's editorship. In 1844, Ash and his family tried Cerulean City again. The publication of "The Spearow" in 1845 brought him some fame. The appearance of his new collection of short stories in 1846 added even more to his renown. His wife died in 1847 and in
the two years thereafter Ash's entire output consisted of four poems: "Jessiebell-Lee," "For Misty," "Missingme.," and "El-Dodrio." These two years were also marked by several unhappy love affairs and an attempt at suicide. A year later, while en route to Saffron City from Celedon City by train, Ash fell desperately ill. He got off at Lavender Town, was found delirious in the streets, and was then taken to the Lavender Town Hospital, where he died
on Sunday morning, October 7th, 1849.
THE END
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