According to my tree, Everett Russell Whittier would have been a third cousin, 4 times removed, of John Greenleaf Whittier. My tree is online here at Rootsweb. Here's the link to Everett Russell Whittier
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op...
May I ask your parents' names? I may have you on my tree. Reply to me at svickery@knology.net, and I can send you what I have on your own line, starting with Everett Russell Whittier, and his children (as best I have them!)