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GEORGE THORNDIKE ANGELL (1823-1909)

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 8 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GEORGE THORNDIKE See also:ANGELL (1823-1909)  , See also:American philanthropist, was See also:born at See also:Southbridge, See also:Massachusetts, on the 5th of See also:June 1823 . He graduated at See also:Dartmouth in 1846, studied See also:law at the Harvard Law School, and in 1851 was admitted to the See also:bar in See also:Boston, where he practised for many years . In 1868 he founded and became See also:president of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of See also:Cruelty to Animals, in the same See also:year establishing and becoming editor of Ow . Dumb Animals, a See also:journal for the promotion of organized effort in securing the humane treatment of animals . For many years he was active in the organization of humane See also:societies in See also:England and See also:America . In 1882 he initiated the See also:movement for the See also:establishment of Bands of See also: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 See also:Education Society . He became well known as a criminologist and also as an See also:advocate of See also:laws for the safe-guarding of the public See also:health and against See also:adulteration of See also:food . He died at Boston on the 16th of See also:March 1909 . See also:ANGEL-See also:LIGHTS, in See also:architecture, the See also:outer upper lights in a perpendicular window, next to the springing; probably a corruption of the word See also:angle-lights, as they are nearly triangular .

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