His brother John soon joined him in teaching, and they rented the Concord Academy building to accommodate larger classes. ... But, clearly Ellen was on both if their minds, and almost as soon as they returned, John the bolder of the brothers, proposed to her. ... Ellen eventually married John Osgood, but corresponded with Sophia Thoreau and was kept abreast of all that the brothers were doing (Mahoney-Smith). ... Then shockingly 1842, John Thoreau died of lockjaw. For some weeks there after Henry himself, experienced all of the symptoms of lockjaw sympathetically, but eventually recovered. ...

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