Word: garrisons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Liberalism is not so plentiful in the U. S. but that three generations of it in one family are noteworthy. A white-haired lady who died suddenly last week at Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., aged 83, was the only daughter of William Lloyd Garrison, the Boston man by whose eloquence and persistence the Abolition movement attained national proportions before the Civil War. Today her son, Oswald Garrison Villard, is editor of the Nation, liberal weekly...
Small Fanny Garrison helped her father correct proofs for many an issue of The Liberator. She was with him when he conferred about freeing the slaves with John Brown, Wendell Phillips, Samuel...
...Villard acquired the New York Evening Post, then a great liberal organ, in 1881. She also owned the Nation, which was edited by Wendell Phillips Garrison, her brother, from 1865 to 1906. In 1900, her husband died. Thereafter, her sons and daughter having grown up, she devoted herself thoroughly to the sort of causes it was in her blood to champion...
...carry on his mother's and grandfather's tradition, the Nation's editor has two sons, Henry Hilgard Villard, 17, entering Yale this autumn and another, Oswald Garrison Villard, 11. Two other grandsons, sons of Harold Garrison Villard, a onetime editor of the Nautical Gazette have already departed the usual paths of liberals. One, Henry Villard, is in the U. S. Diplomatic Corps; the other, Vincent Villard is a white-collar man in a Manhattan bank...
Engagement Broken. Mariquita Villard, niece of Editor Oswald Garrison Villard (The Nation), great granddaughter of famed Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison; and Louis Warren Hill Jr., son of Chairman Louis Warren Hill of the Great Northern R. R. directorate; by mutual consent...