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Garrison, William Lloyd

journalist, philanthropist, author, poet, was born Dec. 10, 1804, in Newburyport, Mass.

He was a very celebrated anti-slavery journalist of Boston who established The Liberator in 1831, and was its editor for the thirty-five years of its existence.

He was the author of Thoughts on African Colonization; and Sonnets and Other Poems. He died May 24, 1879, in New York city.

GARRISON, WILLIAM RE TALLACK, financier, was born June 18, 1834, in Canada. He was for many years president of the Metropolitan and New York railroad of New York city.