WHERE DID THE NAME GARRISON COME FROM? 
  WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON 

William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879), American editor, reformer, and antislavery crusader, became the symbol of the age of aggressive abolitionism. Garrison was named after him. William Lloyd Garrison was born on Dec. 10, 1805, in Newburyport, Mass. His father deserted the family in 1808, and the three children were raised in near poverty by their mother, a hardworking, deeply religious woman. Young Garrison lived for a time in the home of a kindly Baptist deacon, where he received the bare rudiments of an education. He was later apprenticed to a shoemaker, a cabinetmaker, and finally to the printer and editor of the Newburyport Herald. He was a leader of the anti-slavery agitation, but refused to take any part in politics. His argument was that slavery was contrary to the natural rights of humanity. He said: “I shall strenuously contend for the immediate enfranchisement of our slave population. I will be as uncompromising as justice on the subject—I am not wrong; I will not equivocate; I will not retreat a single inch; I will be heard.” In a small chamber, friendless and unseen, Toiled o’er his types one poor unlearned Young man. The place was dark, unfurnitured and mean Yet there the freedom of a race began. Garrison wrote his last editorial on Dec. 29, 1865, "the object for which the Liberator was commenced--the extermination of chattel slavery--having been gloriously consummated," and retired to Roxbury, Mass., writing occasionally for the press. He died on May 24, 1879. .