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Walt Whitman
American poet Walt Whitman, photograph by Mathew Brady.
Following his stroke in January 1873, Walt Whitman traveled to Camden, New Jersey, in May of that year to visit his dying mother. He remained in Camden for the rest of his life, initially living with his brother before eventually purchasing his own modest cottage.12