WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON
Member, Great,
or World, Council;
Council of Three;
Order of The Rose
William Lloyd Garrison, born in Newbury, Mass., December 12, 1805, American writer, proponent of the freedom of all men, was a member of the Great or World Council and the Council of Three, and a member of the Order of the Rose, conferred upon him in England in 1834.
Much after the fashion of John Brown, he almost lost his life in the cause of freedom for the Negro.

He established the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1832, and in 1835 barely escaped lynching by a Boston mob.

Garrison was a close friend of General Hitchcock, Lippard and Randolph, and his anti-slavery work made Lincoln’s efforts for the emancipation of the Negro easier.

Unlike John Brown, he lived to see his dream come true and mourned the passing of his associates, Lincoln, Hitchcock and Randolph.

William Lloyd Garrison passed to the Beyond, May 24, 1879.

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