Whittier
"Snow-Bound" author
Whittier is a city in southeastern Los Angeles County, California, named after the American Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier.
The city retains some Quaker heritage from its founding.
Whittier also appears as a surname and occasionally as a given name: Richard Nixon grew up in Whittier.
poet
Opponent of human bondage
- QuakerSociety of Friends member
- antislaveryOpposing human bondage
- hymnsReligious songs of worship
- IchabodRare biblical name
reformer · pacifist · humanitarian · Amesbury · verse · Longfellow · Bryant · Lowell
california
Outlying residential district
- QuakerSociety of Friends member
- MontebelloLA-area municipality
- earthquakeSeismic ground movement
abolitionist
Opponent of human bondage
- QuakerSociety of Friends member
- antislaveryOpposing human bondage
- hymnsReligious songs of worship
Ichabod · reformer · pacifist · humanitarian · Amesbury · verse · Longfellow · Bryant · Lowell · ballads
suburb
Outlying residential district
- QuakerSociety of Friends member
- MontebelloLA-area municipality
- earthquakeSeismic ground movement
american poetic tradition
WhittierEdgar Allan Poe
Walt Whitman · Emily Dickinson · Charles Baudelaire · Allen Ginsberg · Herman Melville
religious sensibility in literature
WhittierMark Twain