The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . pecial feature is its signed articles. APPLETON, Daniel, an American publisherand founder of the publishing-house of D. Apple-ton iS: Co., New York; born in Haverhill, Massa-chusetts, Dec. 10, 1785; died in New York City,March 27, 1849. His first publishing venture wasa collection of religious extracts, entitled DailyCrumbs from the Masters Table, and later, ARefuge in Timt of Plague and Pestilence. In 1838his eldest son, W. H. Appleton, was taken intopartnership; in 1848, Daniel Appleton retired, andhis se
The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . pecial feature is its signed articles. APPLETON, Daniel, an American publisherand founder of the publishing-house of D. Apple-ton iS: Co., New York; born in Haverhill, Massa-chusetts, Dec. 10, 1785; died in New York City,March 27, 1849. His first publishing venture wasa collection of religious extracts, entitled DailyCrumbs from the Masters Table, and later, ARefuge in Timt of Plague and Pestilence. In 1838his eldest son, W. H. Appleton, was taken intopartnership; in 1848, Daniel Appleton retired, andhis second son, John Adams Appleton, became amember of the firm. Subsequently three othersons, Daniel Sidney, George Swett and SamuelFrancis, became partners. The publications ofthe house now extend over the entire field ofliterature, and it is one of the best-known firmsin the world. Wm. H. Apjileton died Oct. 19,1899, and in 1900 the house became financially in-volved, but its affairs were afterwards APPLETON, Daniel Sidney, an American 214 APPLETON —APPLING. D. S. APPLETON. publisher; born in Boston, Mass., April 9, 1824;died Nov. 13, 1890. He graduated at Yale Col-lege in 1843, and, after studying law for a year, went to London as theagent of the publishinghouse of D. Appleton &Co., which had beenfounded by his father,Daniel Appleton. Hereturned home in 1849,and became a memberof the firm, having forhis special department;the manufacturing de-i tails of particular gifts werethe making of estimates,and dealing readily withOther important matters that required an activemind and sureness of judgment. APPLETON, Jesse, an American educator;born in New Ipswich, New Hampshire, Nov. 17,1772; died in Brunswick, Maine, Nov. 12, 1819;graduated at Dartmouth, studied theology, andwas ordained a Congregational minister in 1797;became president of Bowdoin College in writings were collected and published in atwo-volume edition entitled The Work
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