John Greenleaf Whittier

John Greenleaf Whittier was born in 1807 near Haverhill, Massachusetts, into a Quaker family of poor farmers. He spent only two terms at the town academy, paid for by making shoes and teaching school, and came to poetry through Robert Burns. A journalist, then an abolitionist from 1833, he was pelted with stones at Concord and saw the building housing his offices burned down in Philadelphia. He broke with Garrison without leaving the cause, supported Lincoln, and his seventieth and eightieth birthdays were celebrated in public. He died at Hampton Falls in 1892.

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• PoetrySnow-Bound: A Winter IdylJohn Greenleaf Whittier · 1866LiteraturePublic domain