John Greenleaf Whittier
American
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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| 1807/12/17 | Abigail Hussey Whittier, wife of Thomas Whittier, gives birth to her first son and second child, John Greenleaf Whittier, in the southwest Parlor of the at Whittier home in Haverhill, Massachusetts. | Born | |||||
| 1821/00/00 | My first school-master, Joshua Coffin, the able, eccentric historian of Newbury, brought with him to our house a volume of Burns' poems, from which he read, greatly to my delight. I begged him to leave the book with me... - John Whittier | Education | John Greenleaf Whittier Homestead | Haverhill | |||
| 1832/00/00 | Carter and Hendee publish John Greenleaf Whittier's anonymous "Moll Pitcher", a poem about a fortune-teller in Lynn, Massachusetts. | Author | Old Corner Bookstore | Boston | |||
| 1836/00/00 | John Greenleaf Whittier sells the family farm and moves with his mother and sisters to Amesbury, Massachusetts. | Home | John Greenleaf Whittier House | Amesbury | |||
| 1837/02/00 | Samuel Philbrick host one of Brookline's first anti-slavery meetings. At the ladies-only event, John Greenleaf Whittier listens from inside a closet. | Abolitionist | Philbrick House | Brookline, MA | |||
| 1843/00/00 | "Lays of My Home And Other Poems" by John Greenleaf Whittier is published by W D Ticknor, Boston. Printed by Freeman and Bolles, Washington Street, Boston. | Author | Lays of My Home And Other Poems | ||||
| 1850/00/00 | Clerk of the Building Committee | Amesbury Friends Meeting House | Amesbury | ||||
| 1864/05/23 | John Greenleaf Whittier serves as a pallbearer at Nathaniel Hawthorne's funeral at the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord. | Mourner | Sleepy Hollow Cemetery | Concord, MA | Death of Nathaniel Hawthorne | ||
| 1865/00/00 | John Greenleaf Whittier registers "Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl" according to an Act of Congress. | Author | Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl (poem) | John Greenleaf Whittier Homestead | Haverhill | ||
| 1889/05/00 | John Greenleaf Whittier provides a birthday tribute to Walt Whitman on his 70 birthday. | Life | Walt Whitman's 70th Birthday Dinner | ||||
| 1892/09/07 | John Greenleaf Whittier dies at the home of a cousin in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire. | Died | Hampton Falls, NH | New Hampshire | |||
| 1892/09/07 | John Greenleaf Whittier dies at the home of a cousin in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire. | Died | John Greenleaf Whittier Homestead | Haverhill |
2 Creative Works by John Greenleaf Whittier »
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| Title | Type | Association | Y/M/D | Moniker |
| Lays of My Home And Other Poems | Author | 1843/00/00 | ||
| Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl (poem) | Author | 1865/00/00 |
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