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 ANGELL. ASPINWALL. Mercy," of which he has since been presi- dent, and from which have been formed nearly seven thousand branches in the United States, Canada, and elsewhere, numbering about half a million mem- bers. In the winter of 1885-86, during sixty- one days, he addressed the large public schools of Boston on kindness to animals. Millions of copies of his various writings have been distributed in this country, Great Britain, and elsewhere, and trans- lated into other European languages. The paper "Our Dumb Animals," which he still edits, goes monthly to from five to ■' I GEORGE T ANGELL. twelve thousand editors in this country and British America, and to humane societies over the world. In 1S89 he founded " The American Humane Educa- tion Society," the first society of its kind in the world, and procured from the Massachusetts Legislature an act of incorporation, giving it power to hold half a million dollars free from taxation. To this society he gave property valued at several thousand dollars, and was elected its first president. Mr. Angell, though not a rich man, has invariably refused all pecuniary compensation. He was married at Lynn, November 7, 1872, to Mrs. Eliza A. Martin, daughter of Warren and Lucy A. Mattoon of North- field. They have no children. ARNOLD, WILLIAM F., son of Alfred and Bethiah ( Alden ) Arnold, was born in Enfield, Hampshire county, September 20. 1815. He drew his education from the public schools, and one year's attendance at a select school. He began his business career by engaging in mercantile pursuits in Williamsburg in 1834, remaining until 1S36. He then removed to Enfield, 1837, and from Enfield to Northampton, 1839, where he carried on the same business un- til 1SS1. He is at present city auditor of Northampton. Mr. Arnold was married in Williams- burg, May 8, 1839, to Florella, daughter of Jonathan and Betsey (Warren) Warner. Of this union are three children : Jonathan Warner, Mary Gertrude and Charlotte Al- den Arnold. Mr. Arnold has held commissions in the militia as adjutant, lieutenant and captain ; and justice of the peace, clerk of the town of Northampton seventeen years, member of the Legislature from the 1st Hamp- shire district, 1858, 1859, 186S, 1870, 1S71, and 1872 ; a member of the school board six years. In 1859 he was a member of the committee selected by the House of Representatives for revising the public statutes of the Commonwealth. ASPINWALL, WILLIAM, was born in London, England, February 16, 1819. He was the only son of Col. Thomas Aspin- wall, who was United States Consul at London from 181 5 to 1853, when he was removed by President Pierce to make room for his political supporter, George N. Sand- ers, afterwards a noted secessionist. His grandfather was Dr. William Aspinwall, of Brookline, a noted patriot who took a part with the Brookline minute men in attack- ing the British troops on their retreat from Concord, April 19, 1775. Mr. Aspinwall is a direct descendant of Peter Aspinwall of Toxteth Park, near Liverpool, England, who came to America in 1630, settled in Dorchester, but removed to Muddy River (Brookline) in 1650, and built in 1660 the old house which still stands on Aspinwall Avenue, opposite St. Paul's Church. Mr. Aspinwall was educated in a private boarding-school at Hammersmith, near London, till he was fourteen years of age. He then came to America with his father and family. He entered Harvard College in August, 1S34, and was graduated in