Online Encyclopedia

Search over 40,000 articles from the original, classic Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition.

APPLETON, NATHAN (1779-1861)

Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 225 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
» Make a correction to this article.
» Add information or comments to this article.
Spread the word: del.icio.us del.icio.us it!

See also:

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

Ribston Pippin See also:

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

Hawthornden Baumann's Red Winter Reinette See also:

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

His son, See also:

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

End of Article: APPLETON, NATHAN (1779-1861)

Additional information and Comments

There are no comments yet for this article.
» Add information or comments to this article.
Please link directly to this article:
Highlight the code below, right click, and select "copy." Then paste it into your website, email, or other HTML.
Site content, images, and layout Copyright © 2006 - Net Industries, worldwide.
Do not copy, download, transfer, or otherwise replicate the site content in whole or in part.

Links to articles and home page are always encouraged.

[back]
APPLETON 		[next]
APPLIANCES FOR EDUCATIONAL

Site © 2006 - Net Industries