Henry David Thoreau and Ellen Sewall.
During life, some seem to find one person, one person that he or she could spend the rest of his or she life with. He or she finds one person they won't hesitate to come to in time of need. He or she finds one person who will be there trough the hardest of times in life. He or she finds one person who they will wake up just to see him or her every morning. So was the life of Henry David Thoreau. One Day while on a boating trip with his brother, John, in his hometown, Concord, he met Ellen Sewall. Little did he know at that time, Ellen would later become the love of his life.
Ellen Sewall was a young girl Boston who came from a very wealthy family. When Thoreau and Sewall first met, she was a mere 17 years old. Both John and Henry David courted Ellen Sewall during that time period. From there Thoreau began to write poetry about his affairs in love, for example, "There is no remedy for love but to love more". Both John and Henry David fell in love with Ellen. John was the first to ask Ellen to be his wife. He was soon rejected. Later that year, 1840, Henry David asked Ellen to marry him. Sadly he was also rejected because the Sewall family didn't believe that Thoreau could support her financially.
After Thoreau's ordeal with Ellen Sewall, he never pursued anymore romantic ventures and never married. To this day biographers are undecided about Thoreau's sexuality. Some believe he was a "repressed" homosexual and others that he was asexual and remained celibate all of his life. I believe that Ellen Sewall really was his one person and he just refused to find another.
