Whittier
Whittier may refer to:
Places
[edit]- Whittier, Alaska
- Whittier, California, named for John Greenleaf Whittier
- Whittier College, a private liberal arts college
- Whittier High School
- Whittier Hills, a local name for the western end of the Puente Hills
- Whittier Narrows, a water gap between the Puente Hills and the Montebello Hills
- Whittier, Denver, a neighborhood in Denver, Colorado
- Whittier, Iowa
- Whittier, Minneapolis, a neighborhood in Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Whittier, North Carolina
People with the surname
[edit]- Charles A. Whittier (1840–1908), American Civil War Union brevet brigadier general
- Edward N. Whittier (1840–1902), American soldier
- Helen Augusta Whittier (1846–1925), American editor, lecturer, teacher, clubwoman, businesswoman
- John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892), American poet and abolitionist
- Max Whittier (1867–1928), American real estate developer
- Nancy Whittier (born 1966), sociologist
- Pauline Whittier (1876–1946), American golfer
- Sumner G. Whittier (1911–2010), American politician from Massachusetts
Fictional characters
[edit]- Whittier Smith, main protagonist of the film Bring It On Again, played by Anne Judson-Yager
- Pollyanna Whittier, title character of Eleanor H. Porter's novel Pollyanna (1913)
Other uses
[edit]- The Whittier, a high rise residential complex and former hotel in Detroit, Michigan
- Whittier Line, a former Pacific Electric train route in California
- Whittier Fire, a 2017 wildfire in Santa Barbara County, California
- Whittier Boulevard, a street in Los Angeles, California
- Whittier (horse), an Australian Thoroughbred race horse
See also
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