This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: thegailspot Surnames: Classification: biography Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.garrison/3554/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I found this and thought it may be of interest: http://www.smith.edu/libraries/libs/ssc/atg/garrison.html "'Across the Generations: Exploring US History through Family Papers' focuses on the collections of four families: the Bodmans, Dunhams, Garrisons, and Hales. A rich selection of documents and images portray American family life from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. The main themes of the exhibit are family life, social awareness and reform, arts and leisure, and work." "Five generations of the Garrison and related families are represented in this collection. The patriarch, William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879), radical abolitionist and social reformer, edited the influential Liberator between 1831 and 1865. His sons William Lloyd, George Thompson, Wendell Phillips, and Francis Jackson carried on his specific reforms and general activism. William Lloyd Garrison (1838-1909) married Ellen Wright in 1864. She was the daughter of Martha Coffin Wright who (with her sister Lucretia Coffin Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Jane Hunt, and Mary Ann McClintock) organized the 1848 Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York. The Coffin and Wright families are strongly represented in the Garrison Family Papers. William Lloyd Garrison (1838-1909), along with his brothers, sisters, associates, and friends, became involved in the last stages of abolition and then in movements for freedmen's welfare, women's rights, free trade, socialism, the single tax, anti-imperialism, immigration reform (especially for the Chinese), anti-vaccination, and anti-vivisection. Like her mother Martha Coffin Pelham Wright (1806-1875), Ellen Wright Garrison (1840-1931) was an advocate of women's rights, especially woman suffrage. Her daughter, Eleanor Garrison (1880-1974), carried on the family fight for women's rights as a paid organizer for the National American Woman's Suffrage Association." Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.