[2] He graduated from Harvard in 1861 and his father's abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator, ended in 1865, after passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Very much a successor was The Nation, which began in 1865 and of which he was Literary Editor, but backed up by his father's vast network of contacts.

Henry Villard, who merged The Nation with the New York Evening Post, was Garrison's brother-in-law.

Together, Wendell and Lucy lived in Llewellyn Park in West Orange, New Jersey,[6] and were the parents of three children, one daughter and two sons:[1] Garrison died on February 27, 1907, at Dr. Runyon's Sanitarium in South Orange, New Jersey.

[6] W. P. Garrison contributed to periodicals, compiled Bedside Poetry: A Parents' Assistant (1887), and wrote: