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NATHAN APPLETON (1779-1861)

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 225 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NATHAN

APPLETON (1779-1861) 
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American merchant and politician, was born in New
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Ipswich, New Hampshire, on the 6th of
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October 1779 . He was educated in the New Ipswich Academy, and in 1794 entered mercantile
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life in Boston, in the employment of his
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brother,
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Samuel (1766-1853), a successful and benevolent man of business, with whom he was in partnership White Juneating . . Early Red Margaret Irish Peach . . Devonshire Quarrenden Duchess of
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Oldenburg Red Astrachan . .
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Kerry Pippin . Peasgood's Nonesuch . Sam Young . King of the Pippins . Cox s Orange Pippin Court of
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Wick . Blenheim Pippin . Sykehouse Russet Fearn's Pippin . Mannington's Pearmain Margil .

Ribston Pippin

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Golden Pippin . Reinette de
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Canada Ashmead's Kernel . White Winter Calville (grown under glass) Braddick's Nonpareil . . Court-
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penda Plat
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Northern Spy . Cornish Gilliflower
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Scarlet Nonpareil Cockle's Pippin Lamb Abbey Pearmain Old Nonpareil . Duke of Devonshire Sturmer Pippin . . Kitchen Apples .
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Keswick Codlin Lord Suffield . Manks Codlin Ecklinville Seedling Stirling Castle . New Hawthornden Stone's Seedling . Emperor Alexander
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Waltham Abbey Seedling Cellini . Gravenstein .

Hawthornden Baumann's Red Winter Reinette

Mere de Menage . Beauty of Kent .
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Yorkshire Greening Gloria Mundi . Blenheim Pippin . Tower of Glammis Warner's King Alfriston . Northern Greening Reinette de Canada Bess
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Pool . Winter Queening Lane's Prince Albert Norfolk Beaufin . from 'Soo to 18o9 . He co-operated with Francis C . Lowell and others in introducing the power-
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loom and the manufacture of cotton on a large scale into the
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United States, a factory being established at Waltham, Massachusetts, in 1814, and another in 1822 at Lowell, Massachusetts, of which city he was one of the founders . He was a member of the general court of Massachusetts in 1816, 1821, 1822, 1824 and 1827, and in 1831—1833 and 1842 of the
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national House of Representatives, in which he was prominent as an advocate of protective duties . He died in Boston on the 14th of
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July 1861 .

His son,

THOMAS GOLD APPLETON (1812-1884), who graduated at Harvard in 1831, had some reputation as a writer, an artist and a
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patron of the
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fine arts, but was better known for his witticisms, one of which, the oft-quoted " Good Americans, when they die, go to Paris," is sometimes attributed to Oliver Wendell Holmes . He published some poems and, in
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prose, Nile Journal (1876), Syrian
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Sunshine (1877), Windfalls (1878), and Chequer-
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Work (1879) . See the memoir of Nathan Appleton by Robert C . Winthrop (Boston, 1861); and Susan Hale's Life and Letters of Thomas Gold Appleton (New York, 1883) .

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