Walt Whitman, who was raised by parents inspired by Quaker thought, later wrote: " George Fox stands for something too — a thought — the thought that wakes in silent hours — perhaps the deepest, most eternal thought latent in the human soul.

The company's stranglehold on the region was broken by the first successful large wagon train to reach Oregon in 1843, led by Marcus Whitman.

For a time during the 19th century pantheism was the theological viewpoint of many leading writers and philosophers, attracting figures such as William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge in Britain ; Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel in Germany ; Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau in the USA.

By the turn of the 20th century, the last group of passenger pigeons, all descended from the same pair, was kept by Professor Charles O. Whitman at the University of Chicago.

The last attempt to breed the remaining specimens was done by Whitman and the Cincinnati Zoo, which included attempts at making a rock dove foster passenger pigeon eggs.

Whitman sent Martha, which was to be the last known specimen, to Cincinnati Zoo in 1902.

By the 19th century the philosophers Schopenhauer and Nietzsche could access the Indian scriptures for discussion of the doctrine of reincarnation, which recommended itself to the American Transcendentalists Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman and Ralph Waldo Emerson and was adapted by Francis Bowen into Christian Metempsychosis.

His thesis was The distribution of the binomial coefficients modulo p. He became a professor of mathematics at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington.

The second full English translation, into modern English, is the work that resulted from this decision by collaborating translators I. Bernard Cohen and Anne Whitman ; it was published in 1999 with a guide by way of introduction.

Holst also wrote an orchestral Walt Whitman Overture in 1899, which was given a world premiere recording by the Munich Symphony Orchestra, as well as a recording by the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Noël was a Christmas album of traditional material, while Baptism was akin to a concept album, featuring Baez reading and singing poems written by celebrated poets such as James Joyce, Federico García Lorca and Walt Whitman.

This run was in turn continued under the Whitman Comics imprint until the company completely ceased comic book publication in 1984.

Adams County was formed out of Whitman County on November 28, 1883.

He was particularly inspired by Walt Whitman.

This imprint continued until the late 1970s, after which newsstand distribution was discontinued in favor of distribution to toy stores under the " Whitman Comics " banner.

Whitman County was formed out of Stevens County on November 29, 1871.

It is named after Marcus Whitman, a Presbyterian missionary who, with his wife Narcissa, was killed in 1847 by members of the Cayuse tribe.

Lincoln County was created out of Whitman County on November 24, 1883.

Franklin County was formed out of Whitman County on November 28, 1883.

The county was established in 1885 and is named for Cornelius Gilliam, who commanded the forces of the provisional government of Oregon after the Whitman Massacre.

Emerson, who greatly admired Bacon, and who was sceptical of her claim originally, wrote that she would need ' enchanted instruments, nay alchemy itself, to melt into one identity these two reputations ', and retrospectively remarked that America had only two " producers " during the 1850s, " Our wild Whitman, with real inspiration but checked by titanic abdomen ; and Delia Bacon, with genius, but mad and clinging like a tortoise to English soil.

According to Whitman, himself among the most outspoken of 19th century anti-Stratfordians, she was " the sweetest, eloquentist, grandest woman … that America has so far produced …. and, of course, very unworldly, just in all ways such a woman as was calculated to bring the whole literary pack down on her, the orthodox, cruel, stately, dainty, over-fed literary pack – worshipping tradition, unconscious of this day ’ s honest sunlight.

His portrait of Walt Whitman ( 1887 – 1888 ) was the poet's favorite.

As Batgirl, Barbara Gordon plays a supporting role in a string of animated series, voiced by Jane Webb in The Batman / Superman Hour ( 1968 ), Melendy Britt in The New Adventures of Batman ( 1977 ), Melissa Gilbert in Batman: The Animated Series ( 1992 ), Tara Strong in The New Batman Adventures ( 1997 ), Danielle Judovits in The Batman ( 2004 ), and Mae Whitman in Batman: The Brave and the Bold ( 2008 ).

As Batgirl, Barbara Gordon plays a supporting role in a string of animated series, voiced by Jane Webb in The Batman / Superman Hour ( 1968 ), Melendy Britt in The New Adventures of Batman ( 1977 ), Melissa Gilbert in Batman: The Animated Series ( 1992 ), Tara Strong in The New Batman Adventures ( 1997 ), Danielle Judovits in The Batman ( 2004 ), Mae Whitman in Batman: The Brave and the Bold ( 2008 ) and Alyson Stoner in Young Justice ( 2011 ).

With the onset of industrialism in Victorian times, a small revival of arts towns was influenced by William Morris in the UK ; and by arts idealists such as Thoreau and Whitman in America, and brought into fulfillment by architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright whose influence on supporting the artisan class, their folkish arts, and their use of natural local materials, led to rural revivals of arts towns since the 1970s.

* Whitman Mayo ( 1930 – 2001 ), American television actor

** Stuart Whitman, American film & television actor

The community was the fictional 1888 setting for the 1967-68 United States television series Cimarron Strip starring actor Stuart Whitman as a U. S. marshall.

Ironically, the actor who played the part of the suspected murderer was Stuart Whitman, who had played the recurring part of Sergeant Walters on " Highway Patrol ".

Stuart Maxwell Whitman ( born February 1, 1928 ) is an American actor.

* Gayne Whitman, actor

* 22 – Whitman Mayo, 70, actor, heart attack.

* Ernest Whitman ( 1893 – 1954 ), actor, played the Carpetbagger's friend in Gone with the Wind

Whitman B. Mayo ( November 15, 1930 – May 22, 2001 ) was an American actor best known for his character Grady Wilson on the 1970s television sitcom Sanford and Son.

* Richard Ray Whitman ( b. 1949 ), artist, poet, actor

* Whitman Mayo, actor

* Stuart Whitman, actor

When the pioneers were told at Fort Hall by agents from the Hudson's Bay Company that they should abandon their wagons there and use pack animals the rest of the way, Whitman disagreed and volunteered to lead the wagons to Oregon.

" When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd " is a poem written by Walt Whitman as an elegy to Abraham Lincoln.

When the one officer is not available the Whitman County Sheriff's Office handles law enforcement duties in the town.

In 1994, at the age of six, Whitman made her film debut, acting alongside Meg Ryan in When a Man Loves a Woman ( 1994 ), playing Ryan's youngest daughter, Casey.

When the 456-page book was finally issued, Whitman said, " It is quite ' odd ,' of course ", referring to its appearance: it was bound in orange cloth with symbols like a rising sun with nine spokes of light and a butterfly perched on a hand.

When the book was first published, Whitman was fired from his job at the Department of the Interior after Secretary of the Interior James Harlan read it and said he found it offensive.

When Charlton Heston, who had originally been signed to play the lead in 1958's Darby's Rangers left the movie, James Garner was given the lead and Whitman wound up with Garner's original role in the film.

Walt Whitman construes the Hermit Thrush as a symbol of the American voice, poetic and otherwise, in his elegy for Abraham Lincoln, " When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd ," one of the fundamental texts in the American literary canon.

When Wallace died his archive was acquired by Bolton Museum which holds the largest collection of Whitman related papers outside America.

When a Man Loves a Woman is a 1994 American romantic drama film written by Al Franken and Ronald Bass, starring Andy García, Meg Ryan, Tina Majorino, Mae Whitman, Ellen Burstyn, Lauren Tom and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

In fact, the selection of poems differs ; the New Collectors Group edition drops four, " When Chaugner Wakes ," " Exotic Quest ," " West Indies " and " Martial: The Vacationist " and adds three, " The Prophet ," " Prediction " and " Walt Whitman.

When the book was first published, Whitman sent a copy to Emerson, whose letter in response helped launch the book to success.

When the Interstate Highway System was created in the 1950s, this stretch of highway was a part of I-80S, with Interstate 680 continuing on the Schuylkill Expressway to the Walt Whitman Bridge.

When EPA administrator Christine Todd Whitman resigned in 2003, Johnson became the acting deputy administrator, the number two position at EPA, and remained in that position when former Utah governor Michael O. Leavitt was named administrator.

When, in the late fall of 1847, some Cayuse and Umatilla Indians killed Marcus Whitman, his wife Narcissa, and 12 others at the Whitman Mission, Among the dead, was Meek ’ s daughter, Helen Mar Meek, age 10, who died in captivity.

When Walt Whitman came to Boston in March 1860 to meet the publishers for his third edition of Leaves of Grass, he spent a day with Emerson, who had been one of Whitman ’ s earliest supporters, to discuss his new poems.

When she eventually travelled to Philadelphia, in 1876, she met Whitman and they formed a lasting friendship.

When approached by Presbyterian missionary Marcus Whitman in 1835, Tiloukaikt and other Cayuse leaders consented to the establishment of a mission in the valley.

When the number of dead Cayuse children began to rise, some Cayuse became suspicious that Whitman was poisoning his patients rather than treating them.

When missionaries Dr. Marcus Whitman and Narcissa Whitman refused to leave their mission as racial tensions mounted in 1847, 14 American missionaries were killed by Cayuse and Umatilla Indians.