New Hampshire Whittier's Mother Birthplace Dover cm1077

Oriental Rug Review/Asian Trade is pleased to offer an original article from Granite State Magazine: "Birthplace of Whittier's Mother, Dover," by Katherine Mordantt Quint. This is an original article from Granite State Magazine, Vol. XXVII, No. 5, November, 1899, 10 pp. (loose), 10 Illustrations, 6 1/4" x 9 1/4".

About The Magazine:

Granite State Magazine, An Illustrated Monthly Devoted to the History, Story, Scenery, Industry, and Interests of New Hampshire. GEORGE WALDO BROWNE, Managing Editor. The earliest # in our collection is Vol. IV, No. 3, December, 1880, the latest is Vol. 61, No. 10, October, 1929.

About The Subject and/or Author

John Greenleaf Whittier was born to John and Abigail (Hussey) at their rural homestead near Haverhill, Massachusetts on December 17, 1807. He grew up on the farm in a household with his parents, a brother and two sisters, a maternal aunt and paternal uncle, and a constant flow of visitors and hired hands for the farm. Their farm was not very profitable. There was only enough money to get by. John himself was not cut out for hard farm labor and suffered from bad health and physical frailty his whole life. Although he received little formal education, he was an avid reader who studied his father’s six books on Quakerism until their teachings became the foundation of his ideology. Whittier was heavily influenced by the doctrines of his religion, particularly its stress on humanitarianism, compassion, and social responsibility.

Abbott, in his history of the civil war, writes of Dr. Quint as "one of the most heroic chaplains of the war," and other writers have borne a like testimony to his fidelity.

Dr. Quint married, Jan. 31, 1854, Rebecca P., daughter of Allen and Eliza (Page) Putnam, of Salem, Mass. Her father was not less able as a ship- master in the old-time long voyages than respected as a man. He was president of the Salem Marine So- ciety, and four years surveyor of the port of Salem. His father and grandfather were officers in the army of the Revolution, as also was Mrs. Putnam's father, Col. Page. Mrs. Quint is a great-grandniece of Gen. Israel Putnam, and also of Gen. Rufus Putnam, of the Revolution. Their children have been: (1) George Putnam, who died young; (2) Clara Gads- den, named for her mother's sister, wife of William S. Gadsden, of Charleston, S. C. ; (3) Wilder Dwight, now a student in Phillips' Exeter Academy ; (4) Katherine Mordantt, named from her father's grand- mother, and an early ancestor; (5) John Hastings.