Garrison (William Lloyd) is born in Newburyport.

The son of Capt. Abijah and Maria (Lloyd) Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison becomes an editor and publisher in Newburyport, Boston, and Baltimore, before returning to Boston to found The Liberator in 1831,* helps found the New England Anti-Slavery Society in 1832,* and becomes the foremost abolitionist in the U.S. He marries Helen Benson in 1834, lives initially on Pine Street, then for many years on Dix Place, and moves to today’s 125 Highland Street in 1864. Garrison dies in New York City on May 24, 1879. After a funeral at the First Church in Roxbury, he is buried in Forest Hills Cemetery. Frederick Douglass subsequently declares, “Massachusetts is a great State . . . but no son of hers has won for her a more enduring honor, or for himself a more enduring fame than William Lloyd Garrison.”