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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Henry Bergh (181?3–1888)

Bergh, Henry (bėrg). A noted American philanthropist and miscellaneous writer; born in New York, 1813?; died there, March 12, 1888. He was founder and president of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (1866), founder of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (1881), secretary of legation and acting vice-consul at St. Petersburg (1862–64). He wrote: ‘Love’s Alternatives’ (1881), a play; ‘Married Off’ (1859), a poem; ‘The Streets of New York’; ‘The Ocean Paragon’; etc.