Nathan Appleton

Biography

Appleton was born with New Ipswich, he is the son of Isaac Appleton and his wife Mary Adams. He was high with the New Ipswich Academy, entered to the Dartmouth College in 1794, but he left the same year to begin a commercial life with Boston where already his/her brother worked, Samuel Appleton (1766-1853), a business man in success with which he was collaborates between 1800 and 1809.

In 1813 it cooperated with Francis C. Lowell and others to present the weaving loom electric and the manufacture of Coton to large scales with the the United States, a factory being established with Waltham in 1814, and another 1822 with Lowell, where it was one of the three founders (in 1821). Its mill with Waltham made work the first Weaving loom electric of the United States.

He was member of the general court of the Massachusetts in 1816, 1821, 1822, 1824 and 1827, and of 1831 - 1833 and in 1842 of the Chambre of the Representatives. He was also members of the Academy off Science and Arts , and of the Massachusetts Historical Society. He published speeches and tests on the currencies, the bank transactions, and the customs duties, and thus of his " Remarks one Currency and Banking" (extended edition, 1858) is most famous just like its memories on the introduction of the weaving loom and to Lowell.

It Maria twice and have 8 children. Its first marriage with Maria Theresa Gold, the April 13rd 1806. Together they had:

Thomas Gold Appleton (1812-1884)
Mary " Molly" Appleton (1813-?), married to Robert James Mackintosh.
Charles Sedgwick Appleton (1815 -1835)
Frances Elizabeth Appleton (1817-1861), married with the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
George William Appleton (1826-1827), died during her childhood.

His first wife died in 1833 and it remaria the January 8th 1839 with Harriot Sumner. Together they had:

William Sumner Appleton (1840-?), its death would have taken place after 1910.
Harriet Appleton (1841 -?), married to Greely Stevenson Curtis
Nathan Appleton (1843-?). Nathan died in Boston.

He was the cousin of William Appleton.

References

Memoir off Nathan Appleton , by Robert C. Winthrop (Boston, 1861)
Life and Letters off Thomas Gold Appleton by Susan Hauls (New York, 1885).
" Nathan Appleton" , Appleton' S Cyclopedia off American Biography , published by James Grant Wilson, John Fiske and Stanley L. Klos. Six volumes, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1887-1889.

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