WHITTIER, a city of Los Angeles county, California, U.S.A., 13 m. S.E. of the business centre of Los Angeles, on the slopes of the Puente hills, at the entrance to Turnbull Canyon. Pop. (1920) 7,997 native white) ; 193o Federal census, 14.822. Whittier is primarily a residential city and a shipping point for oranges, lemons, walnuts, avocados and oil. It is the seat of the State
school for boys, and of Whittier college (non-sectarian ; estab lished by the Society of Friends in 1901). The city was founded by Quakers, in 1887, and was named after John Greenleaf Whit tier. It was incorporated as a city in 1898.