Clyde F. Baldwin, a Whittier resident, traveled with twenty-one other men in north-western Alaska on a gold hunting expedition from 1898 to 1899. Anna Hunnicutt lived in the Alaska territory as a missionary of the Whittier Friends Church for much...
Whittier College was founded in 1887 as Friends’ College by a group of Quakers, also known as the Religious Society of Friends. In 1895, the first classes were taught under the official name “Whittier College”, and the College was accredited...
United States politician Richard Milhous Nixon served as a member of the House of Representatives, the Senate, as Vice President, and as the thirty-seventh president of the United States. He had close ties to Whittier College and the city of...