He memorialized the oldest Jewish community in the U.S. with his "The Jewish Cemetery at Newport" and wrote of the "spreading chestnut tree" of Brattle Street in "The Village Blacksmith."  
His second wife, Frances Appleton, died when her dress caught fire and he wrote the sonnet "The Cross of Snow" in her honor.  He memorialized the oldest Jewish community in the U.S. with his "The Jewish Cemetery at Newport" and wrote of the "spreading chestnut tree" of Brattle Street in "The Village Blacksmith."  He used a tale related by Nathaniel Hawthorne for his most famous poem and the historical tale of John and Priscilla Alden for another poem.  FTP, name this poet who wrote "This is the forest primeval" in beginning his long verse work of divided lovers, Evangeline.
His second wife, Frances Appleton, died when her dress caught fire and he wrote the sonnet "The Cross of Snow" in her honor.  
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow