Caryl Whittier Chessman ( May 27, 1921 – May 2, 1960 ) was a convicted robber and rapist who gained fame as a death row inmate in California.

John Whittier Treat is Professor of East Asian Languages and Literature at Yale University, Connecticut, United States, where he teaches Japanese literature and culture.

Incurably optimistic, dogmatic, and utterly fearless, in his youth a devout Baptist, in spite of his friendship for the Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier ( 1807-1892 ) he eventually attacked the orthodox churches for what he deemed their cowardly compromising on the slavery issue and in his invariably ardent manner was emphatically unorthodox and denied the plenary inspiration of the Bible.

The team went on to beat Whittier College on February 10, for its second SCIAC win, and placed its first member on the All Conference team.

The Whittier Narrows earthquake of 1987 showed the need for preparing citizens to take care of themselves and their loved ones after a disaster.

The crystal detector was developed into a practical device for wireless telegraphy by Greenleaf Whittier Pickard, who invented a silicon crystal detector in 1903 and received a patent for it on November 20, 1906.

Police services for the city are contracted to the Whittier Police Department, based at the Santa Fe Springs Police Services Center sub-station.

The census area consists of separate unincorporated communities of Los Nietos ( Spanish for " the grandchildren ") and West Whittier.

The city is named for the poet John Greenleaf Whittier and is home to Whittier College.

Nieto built a rancho for his family near Whittier, and purchased cattle and horses for his ranch and also planted cornfields.

Whittier was once very conservative politically, but in recent years has become divided, with the Central and Western portions of Whittier voting more for Democrats, and East Whittier voting more for Republicans.

He was a retired organic chemist for Texaco, having worked in Ghent, Belgium ; Whittier, California, Beacon, New York, and Port Arthur, Texas.

The pair subdivided the area and named it North Whittier Heights, which became known for avocado, citrus and walnut orchards, in 1913.

The village of Whittier, like Mount Whittier in Ossipee, is named for the poet John Greenleaf Whittier.

Recently, he also headed Popular ’ s recent acquisition of Quaker City, a savings and loan holding company for Quaker City Bank, based in Whittier, California, and Kislak National Bank, a Florida-based commercial bank.

Garciaparra attended St. Mary's of the Assumption School in Whittier, California for elementary school ; for high school he attended St. John Bosco High School in Bellflower, California, where he excelled in football, soccer, and baseball, and had a 3. 9 GPA.

Progress on developing a college was sporadic, but on July 30, 1896 the Whittier Academy, operating since 1891, officially changed its name to Whittier College with 100 students enrolled.

Whittier is bordered by the community of Hacienda Heights to the northeast, City of Industry to the north, and several other unincorporated communities in the San Gabriel Valley mostly along its northern sections.

productions include its award-winning and signature news and public affairs program Life & Times hosted by Val Zavala ( underwritten by The Whittier Foundation, Jim & Anne Rothenberg, QueensCare, The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, Boeing, and the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department ).

Whittier was heavily influenced by the doctrines of his religion, particularly its stress on humanitarianism, compassion, and social responsibility.

Whittier was surprised by its financial success, earning some $ 10, 000 from the first edition.

Montebello, Whittier, and portions of its valley neighbors are in the 323 and 562 area codes.

Most of the Rio Hondo is a concrete-lined channel to serve its primary flood control function, but in two places the river flows over open ground: the Peck Road Water Conservation Park, and the Whittier Narrows Recreation Area.

It is dammed five times along its length: once along the West Fork by the Prescott F. Cogswell Dam, then twice more downstream of the forks in the San Gabriel Mountains to create reservoirs at the San Gabriel Dam, and at the former naval test site Morris Dam ; at the Santa Fe Dam in the Santa Fe Dam Flood Control Basin in Irwindale ; and with the nearby Rio Hondo ( to which it is also connected by a short channel ) at the Whittier Narrows Dam, between the cities of South El Monte and Pico Rivera.

The route follows Whittier Boulevard for its entire length, heading northwest through Whittier as a multi-lane arterial street, ending at I-605.

This reflects the fact that Route 72, having been derived from the longitudinal U. S. Route 101, was actually a south – north highway, pivoting at Whittier and Harbor Boulevards and continuing west before ending at a point northwest of its beginning.

Before 1964, U. S. Route 101 continued past today's end near the East Los Angeles Interchange east onto Whittier Boulevard and south on Harbor Boulevard until it met its bypass in Anaheim.

Whittier is the most populous neighborhood in Minneapolis, and second only in density to its neighbor Stevens Square.

The neighborhood is currently officially represented by the Whittier Alliance, a community organization founded in 1977, which is recognized by the City of Minneapolis and its Neighborhood Revitalization Program ( NRP ).

The Whittier Alliance led an effort with its NRP capital to build the new Whittier International School, constructed on the east half of Whittier Park in 2001.

* Whittier Heights Mausoleum, built in 1917 as " Mausoleum # 1 " or " The Little Mausoleum ", was the second public mausoleum in California ( the first being at Anaheim Cemetery in Anaheim ) and portrays a sense of early California architecture with its Spanish Renaissance influence.

At the time, only one other American author's home was owned by an organization committed to its preservation, specifically the John Greenleaf Whittier Homestead in Haverhill, Massachusetts.

On June 7, 2008, the ABA officially removed Whittier Law School from its probationary status.

In 2010, The Princeton Review featured Whittier Law School in its 2011 Edition of " The 172 Best Law Schools ", highlighting the school's emphasis on small class sizes, an active study body, and practical externship opportunities in intellectual property, criminal, family, business law.

After World War II Whittier grew rapidly and the sub-dividing of orange groves began, driven by housing shortages in southern California.

His family left Texas for California when he was 4 years old, living briefly in public housing in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles before moving to the suburb of Whittier.

Meanwhile the southern end of Whittier grew as an agricultural and industrial job center with working-class housing along the Hastings and Dakota tracks of the Milwaukee Road rail line along 29th Street which shipped grain from southern Minnesota.

The Whittier Alliance was established in 1977 to monitor the weakened community and rehabilitate housing.

He was on his way to a business meeting when he crashed his Corvette into a parked truck on Whittier Drive, near the intersection of Sunset Boulevard, in Beverly Hills.

In 1988, Democratic Assemblyman Condit was a member of the " Gang of Five ," consisting of Condit, Charles M. Calderon of Whittier, Gerald R. Eaves of Rialto, Rusty Areias of Los Banos, and Steve Peace of Chula Vista, California.

Burcham was born in Cadiz, Indiana, and grew up in Whittier, California in the eastern Los Angeles basin.

Martika was born in 1969 in Whittier, California.

The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway and Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad ( later the Union Pacific ) both were built through what would become the community, as was the Pacific Electric Railway's Whittier Line.

It was organized under two old Spanish Ranchos ; on the west, Rancho San Pedro, and on the east, Rancho Los Nietos ( now portions of the cities of Santa Fe Springs and Whittier ).

The racial makeup of South Whittier was 33, 663 ( 58. 9 %) White, 859 ( 1. 5 %) African American, 743 ( 1. 3 %) Native American, 2, 305 ( 4. 0 %) Asian, 147 ( 0. 3 %) Pacific Islander, 17, 085 ( 29. 9 %) from other races, and 2, 354 ( 4. 1 %) from two or more races.

Whittier was incorporated in February 1898, although it was first settled in 1887, and became a charter city in 1955.

At the time of the Mexican-American War, much of Whittier was owned by Pio Pico, a rancher and the last Mexican governor of California.

In addition to walnuts and citrus, Whittier was also a major producer of pampas grass.

Groves of walnuts were planted in 1887 and eventually Whittier was known as the primary walnut growing town in the United States.

In the founding days of Whittier, when it was a small isolated town, Jonathan Bailey and his wife, Rebecca, were among the first residents.

" By 1906, Whittier College was an educational institution with laboratories, boarding halls, a large gymnasium and athletic fields.

The Mendenhall Building at Whittier College was donated by Leona May Mendenhall in honor of her husband Oscar.

Out of the rubble of the earthquake the Whittier Conservancy was formed in 1987 in an effort to stop the demolition of many historic buildings and residences after the disaster.

The area surrounding Whittier College is known as College Hills and was also recently designated a historic district.

East Whittier was a separate agricultural community until the postwar era.

The racial makeup of Whittier was 55, 117 ( 64. 6 %) White, 1, 092 ( 1. 3 %) African American, 1, 093 ( 1. 3 %) Native American, 3, 262 ( 3. 8 %) Asian, 123 ( 0. 1 %) Pacific Islander, 20, 848 ( 24. 4 %) from other races, and 3, 796 ( 4. 4 %) from two or more races.