He lived on a small farm adjoining the ancestral home of the Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier.
Greenleaf Whittier Pickard was named after his great-uncle, the American Quaker John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892).
He graduated at Dartmouth in 1817, and taught school for many years, numbering among his pupils the poet John Greenleaf Whittier, who addressed to him a poem entitled "To My Old School-Master."
Norridgewock Village is setting for the 1836 poem, Mogg Megone, by John Greenleaf Whittier.
Walderne was the local magistrate whose stern Puritan action in 1662 toward three persistent Quaker women proselytisers became the stuff of condemnatory poetry by Whittier.
Among his other noteworthy portraits are Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Nathaniel Hawthorne, George Eliot, John Greenleaf Whittier, Walt Whitman, Emanuel Swedenborg and a self-portrait after a W.H.W. Bicknell photograph.
The school was named in honor of local resident, Quaker poet, and slavery abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier.
The Whittier Glacier near Whittier was named for the American poet John Greenleaf Whittier in 1915.
The neighborhood is named for a school formerly located at 24th Avenue and Downing St. which was named after John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), an abolitionist poet and a founding member of the American Republican political party.
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