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    John Greenleaf Whittier (December 17, 1807 – September 7, 1892) was an American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States...
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    Greenleaf Whittier Pickard (February 14, 1877 – January 8, 1956) was an American electrical engineer and inventor. While not the earliest discoverer of...
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    figure. Whittier was incorporated in February 1898 and became a charter city in 1955. The city is named for the Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier and is...
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    The John Greenleaf Whittier Homestead is the birthplace and home of American Quaker poet and abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier. It currently serves...
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    The John Greenleaf Whittier Home is a historic house located at 86 Friend Street, Amesbury, Massachusetts. It was the home of American poet and abolitionist...
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    popular poem by John Greenleaf Whittier. Fritchie was born Barbara Hauer in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. On May 6, 1806, she married John Casper Fritchie...
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    Snow-Bound (category Poetry and hymns by John Greenleaf Whittier)
    Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl is a long narrative poem by American poet John Greenleaf Whittier first published in 1866. The poem, presented as a series of stories...
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  • Whittier may refer to: Whittier, Alaska Whittier Airport Whittier, California, named for John Greenleaf Whittier Whittier College, a private liberal arts...
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    the early-1900s and is named after Quaker poet and abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total...
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    The John Greenleaf Whittier School is an historic American school building that is located in the Allegheny West neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...
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  • The Song of the Vermonters, 1779 (category Poetry and hymns by John Greenleaf Whittier)
    "The Green Mountaineer" is a poem by the American Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier (December 17, 1807 – September 7, 1892) about the U.S. state of...
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  • Whittier School or John Greenleaf Whittier School may refer to: (by state) John G. Whittier School (Phoenix, Arizona), listed on the NRHP in Arizona Whittier...
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    founded in 1887, was named for the Quaker abolitionist and poet John Greenleaf Whittier. Since that time, the institution has grown into a distinctive...
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  • John Greenleaf Whittier Elementary School may refer to: Whittier Education Campus - Washington, DC - District of Columbia Public Schools Whittier Elementary...
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    John Greenleaf Whittier's interests in literature and poetry, and was his close companion and collaborator until her death. Elizabeth Hussey Whittier...
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    during the Klondike Gold Rush. The nearby Whittier Glacier was named for American poet John Greenleaf Whittier in 1915, and the town eventually took the...
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    school located at 25th Avenue and Downing St. which was named after John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), an abolitionist poet and a founding member of the...
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    Dear Lord and Father of Mankind (category Poetry and hymns by John Greenleaf Whittier)
    from a longer poem, "The Brewing of Soma" by American Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier. The adaptation was made by Garrett Horder in his 1884 Congregational...
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    John Neal. Boston, Massachusetts: Twayne Publishers. p. 113, quoting Neal. ISBN 080-5-7723-08. Wagenknecht, Edward (1967). John Greenleaf Whittier: A...
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    John Greenleaf Whittier School, No. 33 is a historic school building located at Indianapolis, Indiana. The original section was built in 1890, and is...
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    "The Barefoot Boy" is a poem written by American Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier. The poem was first published in The Little Pilgrim in January 1855...
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  • and slavery abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier. Alongside this school, there is also a middle school called “J. G. Whittier Middle School” located in...
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    Mount Whittier is a mountain in Carroll County, New Hampshire, in the northern Ossipee Mountains. Named after John Greenleaf Whittier, the peak is not...
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    entering along the John Greenleaf Whittier Memorial Bridge, a steel through-truss bridge crossing the Merrimack River. The Whittier Memorial Bridge lies...
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    Holmes Sr., Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and John Greenleaf Whittier. James Russell Lowell was its first editor. During the 19th and...
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  • "Cassandra Southwick", the poem by John Greenleaf Whittier based on the experience of Provided and Daniel. (Whittier appears to have considered the name...
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    New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. pp. 357–361. Greenleaf, John (1894). The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier. Vol. 4. Houghton, Mifflin and company. Acadia...
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    Digges, John Ennis, Eugene Field, and Carol Frost. R. T. Smith's poem "Sourwood" also references the custom. A section from John Greenleaf Whittier's poem...
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    including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and John Greenleaf Whittier. Sidney was the recipient of the 1964 All-America City Award. In...
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    97 Woodwell, Roland H. John Greenleaf Whittier: A Biography. Haverhill, Massachusetts: Trustees of the John Greenleaf Whittier Homestead, 1985: 293. McFarland...
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