Emily Appleton

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. [ [http://www.mspca.org/site/PageServer?pagename=aboutus_About_the_MSPCA&abouthomelink] About the MSPCA-Angell ] [ [http://www.mspca.org/site/PageServer?pagename=aboutus_MSPCA_Angell_Historical_Timeline] MSPCA Historical Timeline] [ [http://www.animalsheltering.org/resource_library/magazine_articles/may_jun_2000/maintaining_a_stable_environment.html] The Humane Society of the United States] 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. [ [http://mspca.convio.net/site/PageServer?pagename=aboutus_History_George_Thorndike_Angell] George Thorndike Angell: A vision unfolds] Appleton, like fellow female activist Caroline Earle White (who was active in Philadelphia), was excluded from executive participation in the society she helped found. [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=s_lyumM8d84C&pg=PA144&lpg=PA144&dq=%22emily+appleton%22+and+animals&source=web&ots=FFAOx-4yJ2&sig=45aAhd1ECEm0EwqEQS6wzwn6rTw&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=5&ct=result] The Destruction of the Bison by Andrew Christian Isenberg]

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