Wendell Phillips Garrison (June 4, 1840 – February 27, 1907) was an American editor and author.
Wendell Phillips Garrison | |
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| Born | June 4, 1840 |
| Died | February 7, 1907 (aged 66) |
| 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) |
Early life
editGarrison 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
editAs 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
editIn 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]
- Lloyd McKim Garrison (1867–1900), who married Alice Kirkham in 1896. After his death she married Frederic Wait Lord.[7]
- Philip McKim Garrison (1869–1935), who married Marian Knight.[1]
- Katherine McKim Garrison (1873–1948), who married banker Charles Dyer Norton, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and Secretary to President William Howard Taft, in 1897.[8][9]
Garrison died on February 27, 1907, at Dr. Runyon's Sanitarium in South Orange, New Jersey.[6]
Works
editW. P. Garrison contributed to periodicals, compiled Bedside Poetry: A Parents' Assistant (1887), and wrote:
- What Mr. Darwin Saw in his Voyage Round the World in the Ship "Beagle", Harper & Bros., 1880 [1st Pub. 1879].
- William Lloyd Garrison, Vol. 2, Vol. 3, Vol. 4, Houghton, Mifflin Company, 1885-1889 [with his brother, F. J. Garrison, a life of their father].
- The Reform of the Senate, Reprinted from the Atlantic Monthly, 1891.
- Parables for School and Home, Longmans, Green & Co., 1897.
- The New Gulliver, The Marion Press, 1898 [a satire on Calvinism].
- Memoirs of Henry Villard, Vol. 2, Houghton, Mifflin & Company, 1904.
- Letters and Memorials of Wendell Philips Garrison, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1909 [1st Pub. 1908].
Articles
edit- "William Lloyd Garrison," The Century Magazine, August 1885.
- "William James Stillman," The Century Magazine, September 1893.
References
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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)
- ^ 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).
- ^ 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).
- ^ a b "DIED -- GARRISON". The New York Times. 1 March 1907. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "CHARLES D. NORTON". The New York Times. 7 March 1923. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
- ^ "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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