Apes, William – Appleton, Nathan Dane
Apes, William
author, was born about 1800. He was an Indian preacher of the Pequot tribe; and published A Son of the Forest; Experiences of Five Christian Indians of the Pequot Tribe; Indian Nullification; and a Eulogy on King Philip.
Aplin, Charles Benjamin
physician, was born June 17, 1869, in New Plymouth, Ohio. He attended the Columbus Medical college, Ohio, and graduated therefrom in 1892. He is one of Kansas' foremost physicians at Lamar.
Appel, Daniel Mitchell
physician, surgeon, was born Oct. 28, 1854, in Philadelphia, Pa. He attended the Jefferson Medical college of Philadelphia. He was appointed assistant surgeon to the United States army in 1876, and promoted to surgeon in 1895, with the rank of major.
Appel, Theodore
clergyman, author, was born April 30, 1823, in Eastman, Pa. From 1877 to 1886 he was general superintendent of home missions for the eastern part of the reformed church; and traveled on business connected with that office through Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina. From 1881 to 1886 he edited the Reformed Missionary Herald. He has published Recollections of College Life.
Apple, Joseph Henry
JR., educator, college president, was born Aug. 4, 1865, in Rimersburg, Pa. This successful educator has filled the chair of mathematics in several large institutions; and since 1893 has been president of the Woman's college of Frederick, Md.
Apple, Thomas Gilmore
educator, was born Nov. 14, 1829, in Easton, Pa.
He graduated from Marshall college in 1850, and, entering the ministry, was a pastor of the German Reformed church from 1853 to 1865. In the latter year he was chosen president of Mercersburg college, which he left in 1871, and became a professor in the Lancaster Theological seminary. In 1878 he was elected president of Franklin and Marshall college. He edited for several years the Mercersburg Review and the Reformed Quarterly Review.
Applebury, Elizabeth M
educator, poet, was born Oct. 21, 1834, in Palmyra, Mo. She graduated from the Female seminary of her native town, and soon afterward began educational work.
She has contributed extensively to periodical literature, and her poems have been given a place in several standard works.
Applegarth, Rufus W
lawyer, legislator, was born in 1845 in Baltimore, Md. He was called to the bar in 1867, and has been counsel in most of the leading cases that have been tried in the court of appeals; has also appeared in the appellate and United States and local courts of Louisiana, Virginia, Delaware, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey. He was elected to the general assembly of Maryland in the fall of 1895.
Applegarth, William F
educator, merchant, legislator, was born Feb. 11, 1842, in Golden Hill, Md. He taught school for fifteen years; has served with distinction as a member of the Maryland state legislature; and is now a successful merchant of his native city.
Applegate, O. C
soldier, business man. He has been closely identified with the growth and prosperity of southern Oregon, and resides in Klamath Falls.
Appleton, Daniel
publisher, the founder of the house of D. Appleton and Co., was born Dec. 10, 1785, in Haverhill, Mass. He began life as a dry-goods merchant in his native town; subsequently went to Boston, and in 1825 removed to New York. Here he began the importation of English books in conjunction with the dry-goods business. Mr. Appleton soon abandoned the dry-goods business, thereafter giving his attention solely to the importation and sale of books. He died March 27, 1849, in New York.
Appleton, Daniel
publisher, was born Feb. 24, 1852, in New York. In 1879 he was admitted into partnership with D.
Appleton and Co. Possessing fine business qualifications, he has been an efficient member of the firm. Colonel Appleton has long taken an active part in New York city's favorite militia regiment, the seventh, of which, July 18, 1889, he was, by unanimous vote, promoted from a captaincy to the colonelcy. He is a director of the American Book company, and a member of the Union, Century, Aldine, Riding, and New York Yacht clubs.
Appleton, Daniel S
publisher, was born April 9, 1824, in Boston, Mass.
He attained success as one of the most prominent publishers in the United States.
Appleton, George S
author, was born Aug. 11, 1821, in Andover, Mass. He is the author of Picturesque America; Picturesque Europe; and Picturesque Palestine. He died July 7, 1878, in Riverdale, N. Y.
Appleton, James
temperance reformer, was born Feb. 14, 1786, in Ipswich, Mass. When a young man he was elected to the legislature of his native state, and during the war with Great Britain he served as a colonel of Massachusetts militia; and after the close of the war was made a brigadier-general.
During his subsequent residence at Portland, Maine, he was elected to the legislature in 1836-37, but he returned finally to his native town, where he died. By his speeches and publications he exercised great influence upon public sentiment in favor of abolition and total abstinence.
In his report to the Maine legislature in 1837 he was the first to expound the principle embodied in the Maine law. died Aug. 25, 1862, in Ipswich, Mass.
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Appleton, James
general, was born Feb. 14, 1815, in Ipswich, Mass. He was an energetic champion of total abstinence, and the first expounder of the principle underlying the Maine law. He died Aug. 25, 1882.
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.
Appleton, John
jurist, was born in 1804. He was a former chief justice of Maine; eminent as a legal reformer; and was the author of The Rules of Evidence Stated and Discussed. He died in 1891.
Appleton, John
physician, lecturer, author, was born Jan. 9, 1809, in Salem, Mass. In 1833 he graduated from the Harvard University Medical school, taking the Boylston prize. He attained eminence as a doctor of medicine, lecturer, and author, and was a member and assistant librarian of the Massachusetts Historical society. He died February, 1869, in Cambridge, Mass.
Appleton, John
journalist, diplomat, was born Feb. 11, 1815, in Beverly, Mass. He was admitted to practice law at Portland, Maine, in 1837. In 1857 he was appointed assistant secretary of state, and in 1860 was appointed United States minister to Russia. He died Aug. 22, 1864, in Portland, Maine.
Appleton, John Howard
educator, author, was born Feb. 3, 1844, in Portland, Maine. He has been a professor of chemistry at Brown university since 1868. He is the author of The Young Chemist; Qualitative Analysis; Quantitative Analysis; and Chemistry of Non Metals.
Appleton, John James
diplomatist, was born Sept. 22, 1792, in Calais, France. While his father was United States consul at that place he graduated at Harvard university in 1813; was secretary of legation of the United States to Portugal from 1819 to 1822; to Spain from 1822 to 1825; charge d'affaires to the Two Sicilies in 1825, and to Sweden in 1826.
He resided in France, where he owned a valuable estate. While at Stockholm he negotiated a treaty of commerce. He died March 4, 1864, in Rennes. France.
Appleton, John W. M
soldier, farmer, adjutant-general of state, was born April 1, 1832, in Boston, Mass. He received his education in the Boston public schools, in the private schools of Massachusetts, and the medical school of Harvard university. In 1852- 56 he was assistant librarian of the Boston public library; and was clerk in the board of charities of that city. During the war, from 1862 to 1865, he served as a private soldier; was promoted to major of infantry, and subsequently as commander of battalion of six batteries of artillery. In 1865 he moved to West Virginia, and there joined the national guards, in which he has served as captain, major, colonel, and brigadier-general; and since 1897 has been adjutant-general of West Virginia.
Appleton, Nathan
manufacturer, congressman, was born Oct. 6, 1779, in New Ipswich, N. H. He became interested in the cotton manufacture, and in 1821 was one of the three original founders of Lowell, Mass. He was at different periods a member of the legislature of Massachusetts; from 1831 to 1833 was a representative in congress from Massachusetts; and was again elected to congress in 1842, but soon resigned his seat. He died July 14, 1861, in Boston, Mass.
Appleton, Nathan Dane
lawyer, legislator, was born in 1794 in Ipswich, Mass., on the farm which was bought in 1634-35 by his emigrant ancestor, Samuel Appleton. He repeatedly represented the town in the legislature; was once in the senate of Maine; and three times he was the candidate of his party for congress.
In the winter of 1857 he was chosen by the legislature attorney-general of the state. He died in 1861.