 He and Fanny had six children : Charles Appleton ( 1844 – 1893 ) , Ernest Wadsworth ( 1845 – 1921 ) , Fanny ( 1847 – 1848 ) , Alice Mary ( 1850 – 1928 ) , Edith ( 1853 – 1915 ) , and Anne Allegra ( 1855 – 1934 ) . Their second @-@ youngest daughter , Edith , married Richard Henry Dana III , son of the popular writer Richard Henry Dana , Jr . , author of Two Years Before the Mast . When the younger Fanny was born on April 7 , 1847 , Dr. Nathan Cooley Keep administered ether as the first obstetric anesthetic in the United States to Fanny Longfellow . A few months later , on November 1 , 1847 , the poem Evangeline was published for the first time . His literary income was increasing considerably : in 1840 , he had made $ 219 from his work but the year 1850 brought him $ 1 @,@ 900 . 
