Whitman is so deeply associated in our minds with the teeming life of Manhattan that it is difficult to realize that he was a country boy. He was born May 31, 1819, in the hamlet of West Hills, in this township of Huntington, Suffolk County, Long Island, where his ancestors had lived since the middle of the seventeenth century. Like Whittier, he sprang from an old, permanently settled country stock, long thor oughly adapted to its environment, and now ready to bear its unique flower and fruit.

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