Whittier
noun
1.
John Greenleaf
[green-leef] /ˈgrinˌlif/ (Show IPA), 1807–92, U.S. poet.
2.
a city in SW California, E of Los Angeles.
noun
1.
John Greenleaf. 1807–92, US poet and humanitarian: a leading campaigner in the antislavery movement. His poems include Snow-Bound (1866)
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