Angell, George T
philanthropist, author, was born June 5, 1823, in Southbridge, Mass. He is the president of the American Humane Education society; the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; and the Pre-Parent American Band of Mercy. He graduated from Dartmouth college in 1846 and from the Harvard university Law school in 1851. He founded the Massachusetts society in 1868, and established a magazine entitled Our Dumb Animals. Since that time he has given his time and energy to the protection of dumb animals, establishing twenty thousand branches of The American Band of Mercy, and The American Humane Education society, in behalf of which he has employed missionaries to found humane societies in the south and west, and has caused the circulation of some two million copies of the book Black Beauty, and also of hundreds of thousands of copies of other humane prize stories and publications.