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Emily Appleton was a Boston socialite and animal lover who provided financial support for the foundation of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in 1868.[1][2][3] Appleton was already nurturing an American anti-animal cruelty movement when she saw a letter in the Boston Daily Advertiser from George Thorndike Angell protesting animal cruelty. Within a month, with Appleton's backing, Angell incorporated the society.[4] Appleton, like fellow female activist Caroline Earle White (who was active in Philadelphia), was excluded from executive participation in the society she helped found.[5]

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  1. ^ [1] About the MSPCA-Angell
  2. ^ [2] MSPCA Historical Timeline
  3. ^ [3] The Humane Society of the United States
  4. ^ [4] George Thorndike Angell: A vision unfolds
  5. ^ [5] The Destruction of the Bison by Andrew Christian Isenberg
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