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Appleton, William Henry

publisher, was born Jan. 27, 1814, in New York city, and is a son of Daniel Appleton. In 1835 he was sent to represent the house in London, where he established an agency. In 1838 he was taken into partnership. At his father's death, in 1849, he inherited a moderate estate, which he has since increased by his own energetic prosecution of the business and by active participation in other enterprises. Under his management the house devoted itself entirely to the sale of its own publications, and has come to rank among the half dozen leading publishing houses of the United States.

APPLETON, WILLIAM WORTHEN, publisher, was born Nov. 29, 1845, in Brooklyn, N. Y., a son of William H. Appleton. In recent years he has given more of his time to the editorial department and the London office. He is a director in the American Book company, a corporation founded in 1890, with a capital of $5,000,000; and is actively identified with the New York Free library, of which he was one of the founders, and has held continuously the chairmanship of the library committee.