Surname: Whittier Forename(s): John Greenleaf b. 17 December 1807. d. 7 September 1892. Nationality: American. VIAF.
Poet, editor, and abolitionist. Born in Massachusetts. Contributed to Haverhill Gazette and the National Era. Editor of American Manufacturer, the Gazette, and New England Weekly Review. Joined the abolitionist movement in 1833. Founding member of the American Anti-Slavery
Society. Elected to the Massachusetts State Legislature in 1835. Co-founder of Atlantic Monthly with James Russell Lowell, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Oliver
Wendell Holmes. Biographical information: ANB. (CC)