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.

* Christine Todd Whitman ( born 1946 ), 50th Governor of New Jersey

Charles Joseph Whitman was born on June 24, 1941 in Lake Worth, Florida, the eldest of three sons born to Charles and Margaret Whitman.

* Charles S. Whitman ( 1868 – 1947 ), judge and the 41st Governor of New York, was born in town.

* Christine Todd Whitman ( born 1946 ), 50th Governor of New Jersey.

* Christine Todd Whitman ( born 1946 ), former Governor of New Jersey.

Mae Margaret Whitman ( born June 9, 1988 ) is an American television, movie and voice actress.

Whitman was born in Los Angeles, California, United States, North America.

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

Whitman was born in San Francisco, California, the elder of two sons.

Christine " Christie " Todd Whitman ( born September 26, 1946 ) is an American Republican politician and author who served as the 50th Governor of New Jersey from 1994 to 2001, and was the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency in the administration of President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2003.

* March 26-Walt Whitman, American poet ( born 1819 )

Francis Spellman was born in Whitman, Massachusetts, to William and Ellen ( née Conway ) Spellman.

Grayson's death at 34 left Odets to care for their two children, Nora, born in 1945, and Walt Whitman, now a clinical psychologist, author and photographer, born in 1947.

* Robert Whitman ( born 1935 )

Keith Fullerton Whitman ( born May 29, 1973 ) is an American electronic musician who has recorded albums influenced by many genres, including ambient music, drill and bass, and krautrock.

On September 4, 1802 Marcus Whitman was born in Federal Hollow, New York to Alice and Beza Whitman.

Margaret Cushing " Meg " Whitman ( born August 4, 1956 ) is an American business executive.

Whitman was born in Long Island, New York, the daughter of Margaret Cushing ( née Goodhue ) and Hendricks Hallett Whitman, Jr.