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Wendell Phillips Garrison (June 4, 1840 – February 27, 1907) was an American editor and author.
Wendell Phillips Garrison | |
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Born | |
Died | February 7, 1907 66) | (aged
Alma mater | Harvard College |
Occupation(s) | Journalist, editor |
Spouse | |
Children | 3 |
Parent(s) | William Lloyd Garrison Helen Eliza Benson |
Relatives | Garrison Norton (grandson) Lloyd K. Garrison (grandson) Fanny Garrison Villard (sister) |
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]
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]
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]
W. P. Garrison contributed to periodicals, compiled Bedside Poetry: A Parents' Assistant (1887), and wrote:
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