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18 unusual facts about Whittier


Barry Jantz

Born in Whittier, California, Jantz moved to La Mesa in 1973 and attended Helix High School, Grossmont College, and San Diego State University (SDSU), where he majored in journalism and minored in political science.

Chavurah

The first havurah in America was formed in September 1960 in Whittier, California.

Firoozeh Dumas

At the age of seven, Dumas and her family moved to Whittier, California.

Glenn Allison

He was born in Whittier, California to Leo Allison, a car salesman, and Stella Bradford.

Horace Bristol

Bristol was born and raised in Whittier, California, and attended the Art Center of Los Angeles, originally majoring in architecture.

Jean Wills

Her sister, Dorothy Nemetz, of Whittier, California, was taken into custody at the same time, when the two women struggled with John H. Wills, estranged husband of Jean Wills.

Kelly Kim

Kelly Kim is a poker player from Whittier, California, primarily known for his 8th place finish at the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event, earning $1,288,217.

Kentucky Avenue

Tom Waits grew up on a street called Kentucky Avenue in Whittier, California.

Moose Peterson

Moose Peterson, born in Whittier, California, is a well-known wildlife photographer whose work has been published in over 130 magazines world wide.

Princess Tours

Princess Tours runs ten cars a day (five north, five south) from Anchorage to Fairbanks on the Alaska Railroad, stopping at Talkeetna, Denali, and occasionally Whittier.

Robert Charles Wilson

Apart from another short period in the early 1970s spent in Whittier, California, he has lived most of his life in Canada, and in 2007 he became a Canadian citizen.

T. Thorn Coyle

Thorn Coyle was born September 24, 1965 and was reared in the Catholic faith in Whittier, California.

Tracy G

Tracy G (born Tracy Grijalva on January 3, 1959 in Whittier, California) is an American heavy metal guitarist best known for his time with Dio from 1993 to 1999.

Vaneza Pitynski

Vaneza Pitynski (born "Vaneza Leza Pitynski" on September 1, 1988 in Whittier, California, USA) is an American former actress and singer of German-Russian-Puerto Rican descent.

Whittier Friends Meeting House

Whittier Friends Meeting House (also known as Springville Friends Meeting House; Quaker Corners) is a historic church building at the junction of County Roads E34 and X20 in Whittier, Iowa.

Whittier, Alaska

The Whittier Glacier near Whittier was named for the American poet John Greenleaf Whittier in 1915.

Whittier, Denver

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.

Whittier, Iowa

It is located at the intersections of County Roads X20 and E34 south of Waubeek and west of Viola, at 42.092976N, -91.462973W.


A Breed Apart

Obsessive collector J.P. Whittier, determined to obtain specimens of a newly discovered breed of bald eagle, hires rock climber Mike Walker to pose as a photographer and win reclusive conservationist Jim Malden's confidence in order to gain access to eggs from their lofty nest.

Double bell euphonium

The instrument was first popularized by euphonium virtuoso Harry Whittier with the famous Patrick Gilmore band starting in 1888; the John Philip Sousa band added the instrument the following year Bone Paull and Morris, p. 12, with other US brass bands following the example.

Francis Henry Underwood

Lord of Himself, Man Proposes, and Dr. Gray's Quest, as well as biographies of Lowell, Longfellow, and Whittier, and the novel Cloud Pictures.

Greenleaf Whittier Pickard

Greenleaf Whittier Pickard was named after his great-uncle, the American Quaker John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892).

Jacobel Glacier

It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Robert W. Jacobel, holder of the Grace A. Whittier Chair of Physics at St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota.

Martin Manley

He graduated from Lowell High School in Whittier, California and UCSC, with honors degrees in Politics and Community Education.

Pico Rivera, California

Tenants: CVS Pharmacy, Krikorian Theatres, are located at the corner of Paramount and Whittier Boulevards.

Richard Waldron

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.

South Tamworth, New Hampshire

Route 25 continues east past the village of Whittier to West Ossipee, where it intersects New Hampshire Route 16.

Trinidad Silva

Silva died at the age of 38 in a car accident involving a collision with a drunken driver in Whittier, California while filming the "Weird Al" Yankovic film UHF, parts of which had to be rewritten since he had not finished filming his part.

USAT Brigadier General M. G. Zalinski

On 26 September 1946 the Zalinski was en route from Seattle to Whittier, Alaska, with a cargo of army supplies when she ran into the rocks of Pitt Island in the Grenville Channel, 55 miles south of Prince Rupert.