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Thoreau Essay Preview: Thoreau Report this essay henry david thoreau was a good man Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts on July 12, 1817 (“Thoreau” 96), on his grandmothers farm. Thoreau, who was of French-Huguenot and Scottish-Quaker ancestry, was baptized as David Henry Thoreau, but at the age of twenty he legally changed.