Appleton, Nathaniel – Archer, William S
Appleton, Nathaniel
clergyman, was born Dec. 9, 1693, in Ipswich, Mass.
He was educated at Harvard, taking his degree in 1712; studied theology, and was ordained Oct. 9, 1717, succeeding Mr. Brattle as congregational minister. From 1717 to 1779 he was one of the corporation of Harvard university. He published sermons and occasional discourses. He died Feb. 9, 1784, in Cambridge, Mass.
Appleton, Samuel
merchant, philanthropist, was born June 22, 1766, in New Ipswich, N. H. He was an importer; established cotton mills at Waltham and Lowell, Mass.; and at his death the sum of two hundred thousand dollars was distributed among charities.
Appleton, Thomas Gold
artist, author, was born March 31, 1812, in Boston, Mass. He was the author of A Sheaf of Papers; A Nile Journal; Windfalls; Syrian Sunshine; Chequer-Work; and Faded Leaves, a volume of verse. He died April 17, 1884, in New York.
Appleton, William
merchant, congressman, was born Nov. 16, 1786, in Brooklyn, N.Y. He was educated for mercantile pursuits, in which he was engaged extensively and successfully for more than fifty years. He took a prominent part in various public and benevolent enterprises; and gave much attention to banking and financial operations. In 1850 was elected a representative in congress from Massachusetts; was re-elected in 1852; and was also elected to the thirty-seventh congress. He died Feb. 20, 1862, in Longwood, near Boston, Mass.
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.
Apsley, Lewis Dewart
manufacturer, congressman, was born Sept. 29, 1852, in Northumberland, Pa. At the age of fifteen he removed to Philadelphia, and immediately engaged in active business pursuits, early identifying himself with the rubber goods trade. He removed to Massachusetts in 1877, and established himself in 1885 as a manufacturer of rubber clothing in Hudson. He is president and treasurer of the Apsley Rubber company; president of the Millay Last company; president of the Hudson Board of Trade; a director in the Hudson National bank; and identified with many other enterprises. He was elected to the fifty-third, and re-elected to the fiftyfourth congress as a republican.
Apthorp, William Foster
author, was born in 1848 in Massachusetts.
He is a musical newspaper critic of Boston, and the author of Musicians and Music-Lovers, and Other Essays. He has translated Zola's Jacques Damour.
Arbuckle, Charles
coffee importer; was born in 1833 in Allegheny City, Pa. His early years were passed in Allegheny City, Pa., where he became a prominent wholesale grocer. In 1871 Mr. Arbuckle, with his brother John, established a factory for the preparation of roasted and ground coffee in Brooklyn, N. Y., and in 1875 transferred all his interests to that city. He died March 27, 1891, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Arbuckle, John
importer and manufacturer. He spent his early life in Allegheny, Pa. In 1871 he engaged with his brother Charles in the preparation of roasted and ground coffee, their factory being located in Brooklyn; and he is now head of the firm of Arbuckle Brothers.
He is also a director in the Importers' and Traders' bank, and is president of the Royal Horse association, a syndicate owning ranches in Wyoming.
Arbuckle, John Chalmers
soldier, educator, clergyman, was born July 27, 1847, in Glasgow, Scotland. In 1864 he enlisted in the fourth regiment, Iowa volunteer infantry, and served as a private soldier till the close of the war. *He taught school for several years, and in 1874 graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan university of Delaware. For quarter of a century he has been a clera gyman of the methodist episcopal church, his principal pastorates being in Columbus and Zanesville, Ohio. For four years he was presiding elder on the Gallipolis district, and is now presiding elder of the Columbus district. He has twice been a member of the general conference of the methodist episcopal church; and for two years served as a member of the general missionary board of that denomination.
Arbury, Frederick Walter
educator, was born Nov. 8, 1856, in Flint, Mich. He received the rudiments of his education in the Flint public schools, and in 1883 graduated from the university of Michigan. For five years he was superintendent of public schools of Flint, Mich.; three years at Houghton; and four years at Battle Creek. Since 1895 he has been connected with a Boston publishing house.
Archbald, Robert Wodrow
lawyer, jurist, was born Sept. 10, 1848, in Carbondale, Pa. He graduated from Yale college in 1871; in 1884 was elected additional law judge of the forty-fifth judicial district of Pennsylvania. He has since been president judge of the said district, receiving the re-election in 1894 for another ten years.
Archbold, John Dustin
oil refiner, was born July 26, 1848, in Leesburg, Ohio. In 1864 he joined the rush to the Pennsylvania oil regions, and spent eleven years there in various branches of the petroleum industry. He rose to prominence, and has long been the chief proprietor and president of the Acme Oil company. Since 1875 he has been identified with the Standard Oil company, and a director since its organization, and is now vice-president of the Standard Oil company, of New York. He is president of the trustees of Syracuse university, and a director of the post-graduate hospital and training school and St. Christopher's home and orphanage.
Archer, Branch T
Texan revolutionist, was born in 1790 in Virginia. He studied medicine in Philadelphia, and was for many years a physician and politician in his native state, being a member of the legislature several times. In 1831 he removed to Texas and became a prominent actor in the movements preliminary to the revolution. In 1835 he presided over the famous consultation held by the American settlers, and with Col.
Stephen Austin and N. H. Wharton formed a board of three commissioners to solicit aid from the United States in the struggle for Texan independence. He was a member of the first Texan congress in 1836, and afterward went to Washington, where he became speaker of the house of representatives and secretary of war from 1839 to 1842, when by reason of illhealth he was obliged to retire to private life. He died Sept. 22, 1856, in Texas.
Archer, Henry Hayes
street railway manager, was born July 1, 1860, in Rokeby, Pa. He is president of the Valley Railway company, of Scranton, and vice-president of the People's Railway company of Scranton, and the system of which he is manager comprises thirtyeight miles of road, owned by seven different companies, though operated by the Scranton Traction company.
Archer, John
soldier, physician, congressman, was born June 6, 1741, in Harford county, Md. At the commencement of the revolution he had command of a military company; was a member of the state legislature; and after the war practiced his profession. He was a presidential elector in 1797; and was a representative in congress from Maryland from 1801 to 1807. As a medical man he commanded great influence, and several discoveries were made by him which have been adopted by the profession. He died in 1810 in Harford county, Md.
Archer, Stevenson
jurist, congressman, was born in Harford county, Md. He graduated at Princeton college in 1805; was a judge of the court of appeals; was elected a representative in congress from Maryland from 1811 to 1817, when he was appointed judge in Mississippi territory; and was chosen a representative in congress again from 1819 to 1821. In 1845 he was appointed chief justice of Maryland. He was the son of John Archer. He died June 5, 1848, in Harford county, Md.
Archer, Stevenson
lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 28, 1827, in Harford county, Md. He graduated at Princeton college in 1846; adopted the profession of the law; was a member of the Maryland legislature in 1854; in 1866 was elected a representative from Maryland to the fortieth congress; and was reelected to the forty-first, forty-second, and forty-third congresses. His father, bearing the same name, and his grandfather, John Archer, were both representatives in congress from the same district which he represented.
Archer, William S
United States senator, was born March 5, 1789, in Amelia county, Va. He studied law, and in 1812 was elected to the Virginia state legislature, where he served, excepting one year, until 1819. In 1820 he was elected a representative in congress from Virginia, where he remained until 1835. In 1841 he was elected to the United States senate, where he remained until 1847, having from the first been placed at the head of the committee on foreign relations in that body. He died March 28, 1855, in Amelia county, Va.