Garrison, William Lloyd. Born in 1805. American abolitionist, of humble birth. Was apprenticed at the age of 13 to the printer of the "Newburyport (MA) Herald," for which paper he afterwards wrote. In 1826 Garrison became owner and editor of the "Free Press," and in the next year editor of the "National Philanthropist," in which temperance and emancipation were advocated. In 1831 he started "The Liberator," and thereafter devoted himself entirely, at great personal risk, to the cause of slavery abolition. In 1847, "Sonnets and Other Poems" from his pen were published, and in 1852, a selection from his speeches and writings. Garrison died in 1879.

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