Poets, poets, everywhere.
Tupper was an English poet and writer, with Proverbial Philosophy being one of his most well-know works (although it took some time, being pretty unsuccessful at first, his popularity did eventually skyrocket). A "long series of didactic moralisings", his style (at least structurally) was quite similar to Whitman's (free verse prose poems). Tupper came first, and Whitman did know of him, and may likely have taken inspiration from him.
So Whitman is not quite as unique as we might sometimes think, but I find it cool that there were groups of people who were kind of on the same page. Tupper helped Whitman grow, just as I'm sure Whitman did for others after him.
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