Appleton, Jesse
clergyman, educator, college president, was born Nov. 17, 1772, in New Ipswich, N. H. In 1792 he graduated from Dartmouth college; and then for two years was an instructor in Dover a and in Amherst. In 1795 he was licensed to preach, and for ten years filled pastorate in Hampton, N. H. In 1803 he filled the chair of theology at Cambridge; and in 1807 became president of Bowdoin college. A volume of his addresses has been published; and a selection from his sermons and poems has also been published in two volumes. He died Nov. 12, 1819, in Brunswick, Maine.