WHITTIER, Joirx GREENLEAF, American author and poet, was b. at Haverhill, Mass., Dec., 1807, in the society of Friends. He worked on a farm and at shoe in his boyhood; but at the age of 18, having a strong desire for learning, he I studied for two years at a local academy. n 1829 he became editor of the American Manufacturer, a paper published at Boston to advocate a protective tariff; in 1830 he was editor of the New England Review, at Hartford, Conn., where he wrote a Life of Brainard, and Legends of New England. The subjects of these legends he afterward worked out in his poems, as Nogg ffegone, Bridal of Pennacook, Cassandra'Southwick, and Mary Garvin. Returning to his farm, he was, in 1835, elected to the Massachusetts legislature; in 1836 appointed secretary of the anti-slavery society, and editor of the Pennsylvania Freeman in Philadelphia; in 1840 removed to Amesbury, Mass., as corre
spondent of the National Era. His principal writings are— Voices of Freedom, poems collected in 1849; Leaves from Margaret Smith's Journal, poems collected in 1849; Old Portraits and Modern Sketches, biographical, 1830; Collected Poems, 1850; Songs of Labor, and other Poems, 1851; The Chapel of the. Hermits, 1853; Literary Recreations, 1854; The Panorama, 1856; Home Ballads, 1859; In War Time, 1863; National Lyrics, 2 vols., 1865-66; Snow- &and, and Maud Miller, 1866; The lent on the Beach, 1867; Among the Hills, 1868; Ballads of ilreio England, and Miriam, 1870; The Pennsylvania Pilgrim,1872; Mabel Martin, 1874; Hazel Blossoms, 1875; and a Centennial Hymn, 1876. These poems have that rugged picturesqueness and correspondence of sound to sense which secure wide circulation.