Garrison
Garrison names 4 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Garrison WILLIAM LLOYD, an American reformer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WILLIAM LLOYD, an American reformer; born in Newburyport, Mass., Dec. 12, 1805. He was apprenticed to a shoemaker, but eventually became a compositor on the Newburyport "Herald." In 1827 he became editor of the "National Philanthropist," the first American temperance journal, and afterward on a journal in support of the election of John Quincy Adams. With the paper called the "Genius of Universal Emancipation" (1829), his denunciations of slave-traders leading to his imprisonment for libel. On his release he commenced lecturing in Boston, started the "Liberator" (1831). In 1832 appeared his "Thoughts on African Colonization," and in the same year he established the American Anti-Slavery Society. He subsequently visited England, where he was welcomed by Wilberforce, Brougham, Buxton, etc. In 1835 he was saved with difficulty from a Boston mob; but his principles made steady progress till 1865, when the Anti-Slavery Society was dissolved with its work accomplished. A volume of sonnets (1843) and one of selections (1852) bear his name. He died in New York City, May 24, 1879.
Garrison LINDLEY MILLER, an American lawyer and public official
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
LINDLEY MILLER, an American lawyer and public official. He was born in Camden, N. J., in 1864, and was educated at Phillips Exeter and Harvard University. After graduating from Harvard he studied law in Philadelphia, being admitted to the bar in 1886. After building up a considerable practice he became in 1904 vicechancellor of New Jersey, and in 1913 President Wilson appointed him Secre- Mr. Lundy, a Quaker, he then started tary of War. In Feb., 1916, he resigned from the cabinet because of a serious difference with the President on the question of the new "Preparedness" program. LINDLEY M. GARRISON He again resumed the practice of law in New York City as a member of the firm of Hornblower, Miller, Garrison, and Potter.
Garrison MABEL, (MRS
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
MABEL, (MRS. American GEORGE SIEMONN), an opera singer, born in Baltimore, Md. She graduated from the Western Maryland College and studied music at the Peabody Conservatory of Music, in Baltimore. She first attracted attention as a choir singer in that city. Her first appearance as an opera singer was made in "Mignon" at the Boston Opera House, in 1912. She was at once successful and in 1914 joined the Metropolitan Opera House. She appeared frequently in concerts and also as a soloist with the leading orchestras.
Garrison a military term signifying a body of troops stationed
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a military term signifying a body of troops stationed in a fort or fortified place to defend it from the enemy, or to keep the people around in subjection; also a fort or fortified place manned with soldiers, guns, etc.; also the state of being stationed in a fort or fortified place for its defense, a doing duty in a garrison; winter quarters for troops.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's 1921 sketch of William Lloyd Garrison still stands as biography, though the judgment has moved: the uncompromising editor of the "Liberator" was for decades dismissed by historians as a fanatic whose extremism hindered emancipation, and only with the civil rights era did scholars restore him as the movement's moral engine. The two living Garrisons have since finished their stories — Lindley M. Garrison, who quit Wilson's cabinet in 1916 over "Preparedness" and was back in New York practice when this was written, died in 1932, and the soprano Mabel Garrison left the Metropolitan Opera roster in the 1920s and died in 1963. The military definition has aged more than the people: "a body of troops stationed in a fort or fortified place... or to keep the people around in subjection" describes a world before air power made static fortresses indefensible, and a modern garrison is a permanent administrative base and its housing, schools and hospitals rather than a walled strongpoint.
Written for this edition, 2026.