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ANGELL, GEORGE THORNDIKE (1823-1909)

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ANGELL, GEORGE THORNDIKE (1823-1909)

ANGELL, See also:
GEORGE
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GEORGE THORNDIKE (1823-1909) , See also:

AMERICAN

American philanthropist, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

SOUTHBRIDGE

Southbridge, See also:

MASSACHUSETTS (an Indian name, originally applied to a tribe of Indians)

Massachusetts, on the 5th of See also:

JUNE

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 (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

president of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of See also:

CRUELTY (through the O. Fr. crualte, mod. cruaute, from the Lat. crudelitas)

Cruelty to Animals, in the same See also:

YEAR

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, LEARNED

societies in See also:

England and See also:

AMERICA

America. In 1882 he initiated the See also:

MOVEMENT

movement for the See also:

ESTABLISHMENT (0. Fr. establissement, Fr. etablissement, late Norm. Fr. establishement, from O. Fr. establir, Fr. etablir, Lat. stabilire, to make stable)

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

Education Society. He became well known as a criminologist and also as an See also:

ADVOCATE (Lat. advocatus, from advocare, to summon, especially in law to call in the aid of a counsel or witness, and so generally to summon to one's assistance)

advocate of See also:

LAWS

laws for the safe-guarding of the public See also:

HEALTH

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

ANGEL-See also:

LIGHTS, CEREMONIAL USE OF

LIGHTS, in See also:

ARCHITECTURE (Lat. architectura, from the Gr. ap)(LTEKrwv, a master-builder)

architecture, the See also:

OUTER

outer upper lights in a perpendicular window, next to the springing; probably a corruption of the word See also:

ANGLE (from the Lat. angulus, a corner, a diminutive, of which the primitive form, angus, does not occur in Latin; cognate are the Lat. angere, to compress into a bend or to strangle, and the Gr. ayKOS, a bend; both connected with the Aryan root ank-, to

angle-lights, as they are nearly triangular.

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