Background
George Thorndike Angell was born in Southbridge, Massachusetts, graduated from Dartmouth College in 1846, studied law at the Harvard Law School, and in 1851 was admitted to the bar in Boston, where he practiced for many years.
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George Thorndike Angell was born in Southbridge, Massachusetts, graduated from Dartmouth College in 1846, studied law at the Harvard Law School, and in 1851 was admitted to the bar in Boston, where he practiced for many years.
George Thorndike Angell attended Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School.
While attending horse races in 1866 George Thorndike Angell witnessed two horses being run to death. Motivated by this incident and inspired by the work of Henry Bergh in New York, his advocacy for the humane treatment of animals became a lifelong passion. In 1868 he founded and became president of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, in the same year establishing and becoming editor of Our Dumb Animals, a journal for the promotion of organized effort in securing the humane treatment of animals.
Foreign many years he was active in the organization of humane societies in England and America.
In 1882, the Review Thomas Timmins and he initiated the movement for the establishment of Bands of Mercy (for the promotion of humane treatment of animals), of which in 1908 there were more than 72,000 in active existence. In 1889 he founded and became president of the American Humane Education Society.
He became well known as an advocate of laws for the safeguarding of the public health and against adulteration of food. After suffering from failing health for a long time, he died at his apartments at the Hotel Westminster in Boston at the age of 85.
He is buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge/Watertown.
George Thorndike Angell was an American lawyer, philanthropist, who became well known as an advocate of laws for the safeguarding of the public health and against adulteration of food, and for his advocacy for the humane treatment of animals.
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