biography
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| lived:
| (1811–88)
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| biography:
| Animal protection pioneer, born in New York City, New York, USA. Manager of his father's shipyard (1837–43), he travelled overseas after his father's death and spent one year in St Petersburg, Russia (1863–4), as secretary of the US legation. Resigning because of his wife's ill health, and becoming increasingly concerned with the inhumane treatment of animals, he returned to the USA and founded the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) in 1866. He later assisted in the formation of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (1875). Although he wrote several plays, poetry, and some literary sketches, he is best known for turning the ASPCA into an international movement. |
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