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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2 5 1 Browse Search
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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 10: Prudence Crandall.—1833. (search)
Harris, who afterwards became Mrs. Williams, was in 1881 engaged with her husband in teaching colored persons, old and young, in Greensburg, La., their home being in New Orleans, where their oldest son is teaching, with six teachers under him (Mrs. Philleo [Miss Crandall], Ms. May 5, 1881). and board at her own father's house at some little distance from the village. I allowed her to enter as one of my pupils. By this act I gave great offence. The wife of an Episcopal clergyman who lived in t heroic young Quaker woman Unequalled woman in this servile age, Mr. Garrison calls her, in an acrostic addressed to her who is the ornament of her sex (Lib. 4.47). Miss Crandall was his senior by two years. August 12, 1834, she married the Rev. Calvin Philleo, a Baptist clergyman of Ithaca, N. Y., and removed to Illinois. After his death in 1874 she removed with her brother Hezekiah to Southern Kansas. She retains (1885) her vigor of mind and interest in the colored race to a remarkable deg
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 13: Marriage.—shall the Liberator die?—George Thompson.—1834. (search)
e to find exquisite delight in the family circle, as an offset to public adversity. Helen Benson had, withal, both a thoughtful and a deeply religious mind, which had been early brought under the happy influence of Samuel J. May, her neighbor, pastor, and warmest of warm friends. Although she frequently visited her brothers and married sister in Providence, she preferred the quiet and repose of the country as more favorable to serious reflection. Your grandfather's family, writes Mrs. Philleo of Ms. May 15, 1881. the Bensons, was an honor to humanity, and your dear mother was their darling. Brooklyn was then the shire town of Windham County, and there were held the several trials which arose out of the persecution of Miss Crandall In a letter to his future father-in-law, Mr. Garrison wrote, May 31, 1834: Never shall I forget the emotions which arose in my Ms. bosom, on bidding you farewell at the close of my visit in March last. Your house was then thronged with