New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-03-01
W. p. GARRISON DEAD.
Vas Editor of "The Nation" for
FOrty-One Years.

Wendell Phillips Garrison. editor OF The Nation"
from 1865 to 1906 and the third of William Lloyd
Garrison. the abolitionst. died at South Orange,
MI. last evening. after long Illness
Mr. Garrison born in CambridgepOrt, Mass.
on June 4. 1870 in time to live through the exciting
years OF The ant-slavery struggle and abolition
movement In which his father was the leading fig
ure His boyhood home was the scene Of many
meetings and conferences and a focal point of
agitation. Entering Harvard in the class of 81.
Mr. Garrison was graduated just after the breaking
out of the Civil War. His first years after leaving
college were spent in private teaching and tutoring
and in 1864 ne Joined the editorial staff of The Ned
York Independent" A year later he and Edwin Law
renee GOdkn founded The Nation a weekly
Journal of literary criticism ana politics. To Mr..
Garrison fell the literary direction of the periodical
as wen as ITS general management. Mr. Godkin con-
HhhS himself almost exclusively to editorial writing
Mr.. Garrison devoted himself with intense appli-
cation to his duties. personally experimenting the
makeup of the paper and seeing it to press every
Week reading all the proof and preparing a full
and elaborate index to each volume. In addition.
he reviewed many books, in particular those relat
ing TO slavery and to the lives and works of Jean
jacques Rousseau and Erasmus He took only one
real vacation in twenty years yet he found or
made time to do no little original literary work,
the most important of which was the elaborate
four-volume Life OF William Lloyd Garrison,
written in collaboration with his brother. Francis
jackson Garrison. For ten years Mr.. Garrison was
ms father giving TO 1t all of his spare time and set,
lilR apart one day each week for research ana
writing. The first two volumes were published in
1879, the others following in 1889
after sixteen years as an independent enterprise
The Nation in 1881 became affiliated with The
Evening Post through arrangement made with
IienrE Willard. who was bTOther-in-laW OF Mr.
Garrison. BY tins coalition Mr. GOdkn became.
with Horace White and Carl Schurz, one OF the
editors of The Evening Post and, some time
later. it's editor in chief Mr. Garrison at the same
time assumed the literary edtorship of the daily,
while remaining in editorial charge of the weekly.
He continued To- exercise these dual functions until
his retirement, last June, owing to the rapid failure
of his health
on July of the previous year. the occasion
OF the fortieth anniversary of The Nation two
hundred of its staff contributors presented to MI
Garrison a silver vase in recognition of forty
years of able. upright and truly patriotic work
Ihe inscription having been composed by Professor
Goodwin Smith
Mr.. Garrison had lived in Llewelyn Park orange.
n. j.. since 1866. He twice married first to
Miss Lucy Mckim, daughter Of j. Miller MCkiu,
of Philadelphia. one of the founders of the Amert-
can Anti-Slavery Society. His second wife was
Mrs. Anne McKim Dennis. who died in 1898. Two
children. Philip McI<im Garrison and Mrs Charles
Dyer Norton. survive him Another son, Lloyd
MCkim Garrison died in 1900
Mr. Garrison received the honorary degree of
Master Of Arts from Harvard University in 1898.
He SeVcd for more than seventeen years on the
School Board of West Orange, and for long
time a member Of the board of directors of the
State Geological Survey of New Jersey.
In addition to his biography Of his father, MT:
Garrison the author of ''Sonnets and Lyrics OF
Parallels for School and Home and had be-
sides. published various compilations. collections
and tranSlations. He also edited the memoirs OF
Henry Willard $500.