John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) was born to Quaker parents on a farm in Massachusetts. His poetic career began in 1826, when his sister sent a poem of his without his knowledge to the Newburyport Free Press. Their editor, William Lloyd Garrison, would become an influential backer of Whittier’s as well as catalyze the poet’s abhorrence of slavery.
The most popular song by John Greenleaf Whittier's is Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl
John Greenleaf Whittier's first song Ballad of the Green Mountain Boys (The Green Mountaineer) released on Thu Jan 01 1970.