- Born at 9:0am-LMT
- Pictured on the 2¢ US postage stamp in the Famous American/Poets series, issued 16 February 1940.
- Inducted into the Haverhill [Massachusetts] Citizens Hall of Fame.
- Biography in: "The National Cyclopedia of American Biography". Vol. I, pg. 407-409. New York: James T. White & Company, 1898.
- Biography in: "American National Biography". Volume 23, pages 320-322. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
- "The Whittier Home," where he spent much of his life, still stands in Amesbury, MA, and is a tourist attraction.
- Biography in: "American Reformers". Alden Whitman, editor. Pages 875-878. New York: The H.W. Wilson Co., 1985.
- Elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1905.
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