In 1841, Hawthorne became a charter member of Brook Farm, an agricultural collective founded by Unitarian minister George Ripley near Boston. Hawthorne was the founding member of a utopia. Some believe that shortly after graduating from Bowdoin, the author added a “w” to his last name in part to make the spelling match the pronunciation and also to disassociate himself from a figure of whom he wrote was “so conspicuous in the martyrdom of the witches, that their blood may fairly be said to have left a stain upon him.” 4. The novelist’s great-great-grandfather, John Hathorne, was a leading judge of the Salem witch trials, and Hawthorne was haunted by his ancestor’s shameful past. He changed his last name in part to hide his family’s dark past. Longfellow served as a pallbearer at Hawthorne’s funeral and later penned the poem “The Bells of Lynn” in his honor. In addition to meeting Pierce while attending Maine’s Bowdoin College, Hawthorne was a fellow member of the Class of 1825 with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He was the college classmate of another famous writer. Pierce’s presence fulfilled a passage in Hawthorne’s novel The Blithedale Romance: “Happy the man that has such a friend beside him, when he comes to die!” 2. The former president placed his hand upon Hawthorne’s forehead and found that he was dead. During the night, Pierce awoke to check on his friend in the adjoining room. On the evening of May 18 inside the Pemigewasset House hotel in Plymouth, New Hampshire, Hawthorne retired early after a dinner of toast and tea. With the author’s health failing in the spring of 1864 as a likely result of gastrointestinal cancer, Hawthorne’s old college friend, former president Franklin Pierce traveled with him to New Hampshire’s White Mountains with the hope that the region’s rarified air could be an elixir. A former president of the United States discovered Hawthorne dead.
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