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John Greenleaf Whittier

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Profession
Poet
Died
Sep 7, 1892
Zodiac
Sagittarius
Born in
Haverhill MA
About
Nineteenth-century American Fireside Poet and abolitionist whose best-known poems include "Snow-Bound" and "The Brewing of Soma." He also wrote the lyrics to the popular hymn "Dear Lord and Father of Mankind."
Family
He was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts to Abigail and John Whittier. He and his two sisters and one brother grew up on a Massachusetts farm.

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