Liberty Ships
Two MORE LIBERTY SHIPS recently launched have been named after Dartmouth men. The George Thorndikc Angell was launched in the Atlantic and the Moses Gerrish Farmer in the Pacific.
George Thorndike Angell, 1846, founder and first president of the Massachusetts Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, was a successful lawyer in Massachusetts, and spent a great deal of his adult life in an effort to encourage kindness to dumb animals. He was also a participant in the Humane Education Society and the Parnet American Band of Mercy.
Moses Gerrish Farmer, 1844 (hon. 1853), was interested in electricity, and built a miniature electric railroad over which he successfully transported a number of his friends. He is credited with the invention of the locomotive, the fire-alarm system, and the electric clock.
Other Liberty Ships have been named after Eleazar Wheelock, Samson Occom, Daniel Webster, 1801.; Levi Woodbury, 1809; Salmon P. Chase, 1826; Redfield Proctor '51; Augustus Young '53; Richard Hovey '85; and William Eaton 'go.
