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Whittier, John Greenleaf

author, poet, was born Dec. 17, 1807, in Haverhill, Mass. He was one of the early abolitionists, and edited The Pennsylvania. Freeman, 1838- 39. After 1840 he lived at Amesbury, Mass. Among the most characteristic of his shorter poems are, My Soul and I; The Eternal Goodness; In School Days; The Last Walk in Autumn; The Playmates; and My Psalm. His prose writings include, The Stranger in Lowell; The Supernaturalism of New England; Leaves from Margaret Smith's Journal; Old Portraits and Modern Sketches; and Literary Recreations and Miscellanies. His work in verse comprises, Legends of New England; Moll Pitcher; Mogg Megone; Poems; Lays of My Home; Voices of Freedom; Songs of Labor; The Chapel of the Hermits; A Sabbath Scene; The Panorama; Home Ballads and Poems; In War Time; National Lyrics; Snow-Bound; The Tent on the Beach; Among the Hills; Ballads of New England; Miriam; The Pennsylvania Pilgrim; Hazel Blossoms; Mabel Martin; Centennial Hymn; The Vision of Echard, and Other Poems; The King's Missive, and Other Poems; The Bay of Seven Islands, and Other Poems; St.

Gregory's Guest, and Other Poems; and At Sundown. He was also the compiler of Songs of Three Centuries; Child-Life; and Child-Life in Prose; and the editor of John Woolman's Journal. He died Sept. 7, 1892, in Hampton Falls, N. Η.

WHITTINGHAM, WILLIAM ROLLIN- SON, bishop, author, was born Dec. 2, 1805, in New York city. He was the fourth protestant episcopal bishop of Maryland; and the author of fifteen ser- He died Oct. 17, 1879, in Orange, mons.

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