Henry David Thoreau Net Worth is
$400,000

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David Henry Thoreau was created on July 12, 1817, in Concord, Massachusetts. He was the youngest of three kids to John and Synthia Thoreau. He examined at Harvard from 1822-1837, majoring in British. Thoreau was a partner of Ralph Aldo Emerson, who patronized him and presented him for some of the very most essential authors and thinkers of his period. Thoreau’s early magazines were permitted initially just after pressure from Emerson, who recommended that his apprentice should compose his observations in his journal. Thoreau’s concepts of nonviolence and his opposition towards the Mexican-American Battle was also motivated by Emerson. His article “A Walk to Wachussett” was released within the January 1843 problem of The Boston Miscellany. Thoreau spent several months afterwards in 1843 in NY, tutoring Emerson’s sons, and attempting to become published. Over the 4-th of July, 1845, Thoreau embarked on his two-year test in simple living. He resided in a little self-built house over the shoreline of Walden Fish-pond, on the property possessed by Emerson over the outskirts of Concord. There Thoreau got a perfect environment for considering and writing. Nevertheless, he once spent a night time in prison for refusing to pay for six many years of delinquent poll fees. During that period he released an elegy to his past due brother, placing himself into personal debt for a long time, because he paid all expenditures from pocket. He remaining Walden Fish pond on Sept 6, 1847, and worked well off his personal debt in a couple of years. His article “On the work of Civil Disobedience” (1849) was identified by Leo Tolstoy, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Marcel Proust, Ernest Hemingway, Martin Luther Ruler, and many more, as a significant influence on the respective careers. Thoreau’s writings evolved from his desire for nature and organic life-style. His fascination with natural background and travel narratives, like Darwin’s and Bartram’s, influenced a lot of his personal functions. His essays “Autumnal tints”, “The Sucession of Trees and shrubs”, “Crazy Apples”, as well as the lately published “Trust within a Seed” make Thoreau among the early American environmentalist. Thoreau experienced tuberculosis, which he contracted in 1835. He also proved helpful at his family’s pencil stock for quite some time and seriously affected his wellness by inhaling dirt particles. He passed away on, may 6, 1862, and was laid to rest within the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. His three-million phrases journal was released in 1906, assisting to build his contemporary reputation.

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Full Name	Henry Fielding
Died	February 28, 1916, London, United Kingdom
Profession	Author, Philosopher, Poet, Novelist, Surveyor, Naturalist, Justice of the peace, Polymath, Barrister, Playwright, Critic, Historian
Education	Leiden University, Harvard Law School, Concord Academy, Eton College, Harvard College, Harvard University
Parents	John Thoreau, Henry James Sr., Mary Robertson Walsh, Sarah Gould Fielding, Cynthia Dunbar, Edmund Fielding
Siblings	William James, Sarah Fielding, John Fielding, Alice James, Garth Wilkinson James, John Thoreau Jr., Sophia Thoreau, Helen Thoreau, Robertson James
Nominations	Nobel Prize in Literature, Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, USC Scripter Award
Movies	The Innocents, The Heiress, The Portrait of a Lady, Tom Jones, What Maisie Knew, The Nightcomers, The Wings of the Dove, Presence of Mind, The Others, The Bostonians, The Golden Bowl, Washington Square, Daisy Miller, The Lost Moment, The Turn of the Screw, Through the Shadow, Celine and Julie Go Boating, The Haunting of Hell House, Die Freunde der Freunde, The Europeans, In the Shadows, The Green Room, The Pupil, The American, Berkeley Square, The Light at Walden, The Spoils of Poynton, Britten: The Turn of the Screw, Opera Australia: The Turn of the Screw