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"Baby Fanny" Longfellow was born 7 April 1847 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, 184 to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) and Frances Elizabeth Appleton (1817-1861) and died 11 September 1848 Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts of unspecified causes.

Biography

While Frances "Baby Fanny" Longfellow barely lived only 17 months, her birth was characterized by very remarkable breakthrough event in medicine. Dr. Nathan Cooley Keep administered ether as the first obstetric anesthetic in the United States to her mother, Frances Elizabeth Appleton (1817-1861).







Siblings


Offspring of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) and Mary Storer Potter (1812-1835)
Name Birth Death Joined with
Baby Longfellow (1835-1835) 5 October 1835 Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands 5 October 1835 Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands


Offspring of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) and Frances Elizabeth Appleton (1817-1861)
Name Birth Death Joined with
Charles Appleton Longfellow (1844-1893) 9 June 1844 Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States 13 April 1893 Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow (1845-1921) 28 November 1845 Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States 24 November 1921 Hotel Touraine, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States Harriet Maria Spelman (1848-1937)
Frances Longfellow (1847-1848) 7 April 1847 Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, 184 11 September 1848 Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Alice Mary Longfellow (1850-1928) 22 September 1850 Longfellow House, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, 1928 7 December 1928 Longfellow House, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Edith Longfellow (1853-1915) 22 October 1853 Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts 21 July 1915 Manchester, Essex County, Massachusetts Richard Henry Dana (1851-1931)
Anne Allegra Longfellow (1855-1934) 8 November 1855 Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts 28 February 1934 110 Brattle Street, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States Joseph Gilbert Thorp (1852-1931)

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