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 ANGELL. ANGELL. 21 city of Boston, having been first appointed in 1885. In 1889 Mr. Andrew was elected to Congress from the 3d Massachusetts dis- trict, on the Democratic ticket. The vote stood John F. Andrew, Democrat, 16,338 ; Alanson W. Beard, Republican, 14,780 ; Henry V. Shugg, Prohibitionist, 283. Mr. Andrew was married in Boston, October 11, iSSs, to Harriet, daughter of JOHN F ANDREW Nathaniel and Cornelia (Van Rensselaer) Thayer. Their children are : Cornelia Thayer and Elizabeth Andrew. ANGELL, George Thorndike, son of Rev. George and Rebekah Angell, was born at Southbridge, Worcester county, June 5, 1823. His early education was received in various schools of Massachusetts, Vermont and New Hampshire. He entered Brown University in 1842, removing to Dart- mouth College 1843, graduating in 1846. After graduating he taught school in Boston, and at the same time studied law with Hon. Richard Fletcher, judge of the Massachusetts supreme court. Subse- quently he studied in the offices of Hon. Charles G. Loring, Boston, and at Harvard University law school. He was admitted to the Boston bar in 1851, and formed a partnership with Hon. Samuel E. Sewall, Boston, which lasted thirteen years, at the end of which time he became senior part- ner of the firm of Angell & Jennison, Boston, continuing in this relation several years. In 1864, two years before the founding in America of any society for the preven- tion of cruelty to animals, he gave by will a large portion of his property to be used after his death in carrying humane educa- tion into schools and Sunday-schools. In 1868, with the aid of others, he founded the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the second incorporated society of its kind in America. He drew its act of incorpor- ation and constitution and the state laws under which it acts, and was elected its first president, which office he has held for over twenty years. In the same year he started and edited "Our Dumb Animals," the first paper of its kind in the world, and printed two hundred thousand copies of its first number. In 1869 he visited England, induced the Royal Society there to start a paper similar to his own, and with the aid of the Baroness Burdett-Coutts, to establish the Ladies' Humane Educational Committee, of which she is president, and which has done a vast educational work in Great Britain. He also visited the continental societies, and was the only American rep- resentative at the World's Congress in Zurich, Switzerland, 1869. In the fall of 1870 he went to Chicago, and spent nearly six months founding the Illinois Humane Society. Since 1S70 he has devoted to this work most of his time, and much money, giving addresses before legislatures, universities, colleges, schools, conventions of teachers and clergy, union meetings of churches, etc., and personally helping establish humane societies as far south as New Orleans, and as far west as Dakota. In 1874 he was elected a director of the American Social Science Association, and from that time to 1881 gave much atten- tion to the labor question, and the growth and prevention of crime — particularly crimes against public health in the sale of poisonous and adulterated foods and other articles. He succeeded in 1881 in obtain- ing a congressional report on this subject, embodying a vast amount of evidence he had gathered, and caused over a hundred thousand copies of it to be distributed in this country and Europe. In 1882, with another gentleman, he founded "The Parent American Band of