Prides Crossing, MA Other Information. 1  Located in ESSEX County, Massachusetts. 2  Prides Crossing, MA is also known as: 3  PRIDES XING, MA.
Poe, John. W., Items. Born in Mason County Kentucky in 1850, John William Poe moved to Texas in 1868 to hunt buffalo. In the 1870s he served as town marshal for Fort Griffin, before becoming a U. S. marshal.
Poe is considered to be the father of the modern detective  story. His character, Chevalier C. Auguste Dupin, was the precursor  to Sherlock Holmes as Conan Doyle's characteâ¦r Dr. Watson said to  Sherlock (in the first Holmes Story A Study in Scarlet) You  remind me of Edgar Allen [SIC] Poe's Dupin..