John Allan with his wife Frances Allan became the foster parents of Edgar Allan Poe after his mother died when Poe was almost three years old.
John Allan was born in 1779 in Dundonald, Ayrshire in Scotland and passed away at age 54 in March of 1834. He was the foster father to Edgar Allan Poe.
John Allan - colonel - was born in 1747.
John Aitken Allan was born in 1897.
John Anthony Allan was born in 1937.
John Allan Broun was born on 1817-09-21.
Peter John Allan was born on 1825-06-06.
John Allan - Canadian politician - was born in 1856.
John Allan Cecil Cecil-Wright died in 1982.
John Allan - Australian politician - was born on 1866-03-27.
John Allan Cameron was born on December 16, 1938, in Inverness, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.
John Allan (a successful Scottish merchant) and Frances Valentine Allan (John Allan's wife) were a foster family to Poe. They also provided him with an excellent twelve year education.
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John Allan is Edgar Allan Poe's foster father.