Wendell Phillips Garrison
Born(1840-06-04)June 4, 1840
Cambridgeport, Massachusetts
DiedFebruary 7, 1907(1907-02-07) (aged 66)
South Orange, New Jersey
Alma materHarvard College
Occupation(s)Journalist, editor
Spouse
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(m. 1865; died 1877)​
Children3
Parent(s)William Lloyd Garrison
Helen Eliza Benson
RelativesGarrison Norton (grandson)
Lloyd K. Garrison (grandson)
Fanny Garrison Villard (sister)

Wendell Phillips Garrison (June 4, 1840 – February 27, 1907) was an American editor and author.

Early life

Garrison was born on June 4, 1840, at Cambridgeport, Massachusetts. He was the third son of the abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison and Helen Eliza (née Benson) Garrison.[1] Among his three siblings were brother William Lloyd Garrison Jr. (a prominent advocate of the single tax) and sister Helen Frances Garrison (a suffragette who married railroad tycoon Henry Villard).[2]

He graduated from Harvard in 1861 and his father's abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator, ended in 1865, after passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Very much a successor was The Nation, which began in 1865 and of which he was Literary Editor, but backed up by his father's vast network of contacts.[3]

Career

As a young man, Garrison had adopted pacifist and anti-imperialist beliefs.[4] He had assisted E. L. Godkin in establishing the magazine. Henry Villard, who merged The Nation with the New York Evening Post, was Garrison's brother-in-law. Garrison also wrote several books, including What Mr. Darwin Saw, an abridged and illustrated version of Darwin's The Voyage of the Beagle for children.[5]

Personal life

In 1865, Garrison was married to Lucy McKim (1842–1877), daughter of Presbyterian minister James Miller McKim and Sarah Allibone (née Speakman) McKim. Her younger brother was Charles Follen McKim, a prominent architect with the firm of McKim, Mead & White. Together, Wendell and Lucy lived in Llewellyn Park in West Orange, New Jersey,[6] and were the parents of three children, one daughter and two sons:[1]

Garrison died on February 27, 1907, at Dr. Runyon's Sanitarium in South Orange, New Jersey.[6]

Works

W. P. Garrison contributed to periodicals, compiled Bedside Poetry: A Parents' Assistant (1887), and wrote:

Articles

References

  1. ^ a b c "W.P. GARRISON IS DEAD AT 67; Son of the Noted Abolitionist and Editor of The Nation for 41 Years. LIFE SPENT IN LETTERS Biography of His Father in Four Volumes Was His Most Elaborate Work". The New York Times. 1 March 1907. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
  2. ^ Times, Special to The New York (6 July 1928). "MRS. HENRY VILLARD DIES AT AGE OF 83; Daughter of Garrison, Noted Abolitionist, and Widow of Northern Pacific's Builder. WAS A PIONEER SUFFRAGIST Leader in Peace Cause, Charities and Society--Advocate of Colleges for Women". The New York Times. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
  3. ^ William Lloyd Garrison, Walter M. Merrill (ed.) The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison: Let the Oppressed Go Free, 1861-1867. Harvard University Press, 1979. ISBN 9780674526655 (p.9)
  4. ^ Peter Brock, Pacifism in the United States : from the colonial era to the First World War. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1970. ISBN 9781400878376 (p.701).
  5. ^ Bernard Lightmann, "The Popularization of Evolution and Victorian Culture", in Lightman and Bennett Zon, Evolution and Victorian Culture. Cambridge University Press, 2014. ISBN 9781139992305 (p.302-3).
  6. ^ a b "DIED -- GARRISON". The New York Times. 1 March 1907. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
  7. ^ Daniels, Lee A. (3 October 1991). "Lloyd K. Garrison, Lawyer, Dies; Leader in Social Causes Was 92". The New York Times. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
  8. ^ "CHARLES D. NORTON". The New York Times. 7 March 1923. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
  9. ^ "CHARLES D. NORTON, BANKER, DIES AT 53; Succumbs to Complications Following an Attack of Influenza. ACTIVE IN CIVIC WORK Once Assistant Secretary of Treasury and Secretary to President Taft". The New York Times. 7 March 1923. Retrieved 30 November 2021.

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