Queer Places:
Harvard University (Ivy League), 2 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138
Saint Marks Episcopal Church Cemetery, 175 St Marks Church Rd, Perryville, MD 21903, United States

Reverend Charles T. Sempers (December 9, 1859 - 1931) was born on December 9, 1859, in North East, Cecil County, Maryland, United States. He was the son of Dr. Charles Tilden Sempers (born 1821) and Eliza Whitaker Sempers (born 1833). He grew up alongside his family, with siblings including Frances W. Sempers, Gertrude Sempers, J. Ford Sempers, and Eliza W. Sempers.

During his early life, he lived in Pennsylvania in 1870 and later attended Harvard University as an undergraduate student. While at Harvard, Sempers and fellow student William Sloane Kennedy were among those who drew Walt Whitman back to Boston. As an undergraduate, Sempers wrote a fine essay for the Harvard Monthly about Whitman, which Whitman biographer Jerome Loving noted as "one of the earliest attempts by someone outside Whitman’s various circles of support to identify what is most admirable about Leaves of Grass."

Charles T. Sempers passed away in 1931 at the age of 71 or 72 in Cecil, Maryland. He was laid to rest at Saint Mark's Episcopal Church Cemetery in Perryville, Cecil County, Maryland.

References:

The Crimson Letter: Harvard, Homosexuality, and the Shaping of American Culture Paperback – Illustrated, June 1, 2004 by Douglass Shand-Tucci

Other references:

• The Walt Whitman Archive (including correspondence such as Charles T. Sempers' letter to Walt Whitman on March 4, 1888, and archival records detailing his connection to Whitman)
• The Harvard Monthly (volumes featuring editorial work and contributions by Charles T. Sempers, including his January 1888 essay "Walt Whitman and His Philosophy")
• Jerome Loving's biographical works on Walt Whitman (referencing Charles T. Sempers' undergraduate essay on Leaves of Grass)
• Vital statistics, census data, and genealogical records (documenting his birth on December 9, 1859, in North East, Cecil County, Maryland, residency in Pennsylvania in 1870, and family records listing parents Dr. Charles Tilden Sempers and Eliza Whitaker Sempers, alongside siblings Frances, Gertrude, J. Ford, and Eliza W.)
• Saint Mark's Episcopal Church Cemetery records in Perryville, Cecil County, Maryland (documenting his 1931 death and burial)

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