Ancestry of
John Greenleaf Whittier

American “Fireside” Poet

John Greenleaf Whittier

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • John Whittier 
  • Mother:
  • Abigail Hussey   
  • Birth Date:
  • 17 Dec 1807 
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  • Death Date:
  • 7 Sep 1892 
  • Death Location:
  • Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire 
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  • American “Fireside” Poet

    John Greenleaf Whittier is often listed among the Fireside Poets. The group consisted of the first American poets whose popularity rivaled that of British poets. It is often said to include John Greenleaf Whittier, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Cullen Bryant, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and James Russell Lowell.

• Sources for John Greenleaf Whittier

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1901, Vol. 55, p. 387.
  • ² Cutter, William Richard, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Volume 1, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1908), 42.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 183.