In 1847, Virginia Poe, the wife of Edgar Allan Poe, died of tuberculosis in Fordham, New York. She was entombed on February 2 in the Valentine family vault in the Dutch Reformed Church cemetery in New York City. There is no other significant event that happened in Fordham, New York in 1847 according to the search results. However, in the same year, a Jesuit priest named John Larkin was charged with founding a church to serve the faithful in New York City with only 50 cents and an old horse. This led to the establishment of the St. Johns College, which later became Fordham University.