| APPLETON (Soundex
A143)
— See also
APPLE,
ETON,
PANTLEO,
PELTON,
PLETTEN,
PLETZ,
POLITAN,
POLTON,
POPPLETON,
POULTEN,
POULTNEY,
POULTON,
STAPLETON,
TAMPLET,
TEMPLETON,
TRIPLETT.
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See also
Charles
Sumner Bird Jr. —
Samuel
M. Blatchford —
Appleton
B. Clarke —
Livingston
Davis —
Nathaniel
Appleton Haven —
Randolph
Appleton Kidder —
Appleton
Main —
Nelson
Appleton Miles —
William
Franklin Nason —
Jane
Pierce —
Appleton
Robbins —
Appleton
Stevens —
George
Appleton Stockwell |
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Appleton, Albert Francis
(1850-1914) —
also known as Albert F. Appleton —
of Crystal, Pembina
County, N.Dak.
Born in Yorkshire, England,
January
14, 1850.
Farmer;
banker;
delegate
to North Dakota state constitutional convention from Pembina
County, 1889; member of North
Dakota state senate, 1890.
Catholic.
Died in Seattle, King
County, Wash., October
1, 1914 (age 64 years, 260
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Wright
Crematory and Columbarium, Seattle, Wash.
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Relatives: Son
of Thomas Joseph Appleton and Jane Ann (Horner) Appleton; married to
Martha Tay. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Appleton, Albert I. —
of Illinois.
Republican. Candidate for University
of Illinois trustee, 1938.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Appleton, Arthur Taggard
(1884-1961) —
also known as Arthur T. Appleton —
of Dublin, Cheshire
County, N.H.
Born in Dublin, Cheshire
County, N.H., May 8,
1884.
Republican. Electrical
contractor; member of New
Hampshire Governor's Council 4th District; elected 1938.
Died in Dublin, Cheshire
County, N.H., August
16, 1961 (age 77 years, 100
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Charles Francis Appleton and Lillian Gertrude (Jones) Appleton;
married, September
26, 1908, to Alice Ethel Fox; first cousin twice removed of John Appleton (1804-1891) and Jane
Pierce; first cousin thrice removed of Nathan Appleton, James
Appleton, William Appleton and Nathan Dane Appleton; second cousin twice
removed of John Appleton (1815-1864); second
cousin four times removed of John
Brown and Erastus
Fairbanks; third cousin thrice removed of Ebenezer
Huntington, Horace
Fairbanks, Franklin
Fairbanks and John
Mason Jr.; fourth cousin once removed of Leverett
Saltonstall, Richard
Saltonstall and Randolph
Appleton Kidder. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Sprague
family of Providence, Rhode Island; Biddle-Randolph
family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton
family of Massachusetts; Beakes-Greene-Witter
family; Shippen-Middleton
family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
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Appleton, Calvin —
Not U.S. citizen; U.S. Consular Agent in Liverpool, 1863-77.
Burial location unknown.
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Appleton, James
(1785-1862) —
also known as "Father of Prohibition" —
of Gloucester, Essex
County, Mass.; Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine; Ipswich, Essex
County, Mass.
Born in Ipswich, Essex
County, Mass., February
14, 1785.
General in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1813-14; first to
propose state prohibition on the manufacture and sale of liquor,
1832; member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1836-37; Liberty candidate for Governor of
Maine, 1842, 1843, 1844.
Died in Ipswich, Essex
County, Mass., August
25, 1862 (age 77 years, 192
days).
Burial location unknown.
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| | Appleton, Jane
Means See Jane
Pierce |
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Appleton, John
(1758-1829) —
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., March 1,
1758.
U.S. Commercial Agent (Consul) in Calais, 1802-07.
Died in Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., August
9, 1829 (age 71 years, 161
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Appleton, John
(1804-1891) —
of Bangor, Penobscot
County, Maine.
Born in New Ipswich, Hillsborough
County, N.H., July 12,
1804.
Lawyer;
justice
of Maine state supreme court, 1852-62; chief
justice of Maine state supreme court, 1862-83.
Died in Bangor, Penobscot
County, Maine, February
7, 1891 (age 86 years, 210
days).
Entombed at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, Bangor, Maine.
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Relatives: Son
of John Appleton (1763-1849) and Elizabeth (Peabody) Appleton;
married 1834 to Sarah
Newcomb Allen; married 1876 to Annie
Greely; first cousin of Jane
Pierce; first cousin once removed of Nathan
Appleton, James Appleton, William Appleton and Nathan Dane Appleton; first cousin twice
removed of Arthur Taggard Appleton; second
cousin of John Appleton (1815-1864); second
cousin twice removed of John
Brown; second cousin thrice removed of Leverett
Saltonstall, Richard
Saltonstall and Randolph
Appleton Kidder; second cousin four times removed of William
Lawrence Saltonstall; third cousin once removed of Ebenezer
Huntington; third cousin twice removed of Daniel
Parrish Witter; fourth cousin of Jabez
Williams Huntington, John
Brown Francis, Thomas
Passmore Treadwell and Joshua
Perkins; fourth cousin once removed of Edward
Biddle, Charles
Biddle, Enoch
Woodbridge, John Appleton (1758-1829),
Thomas Appleton, Timothy
Pitkin, Leonard
White, Robert
Odiorne Treadwell, George
Douglas Perkins and Albert
Lemando Bingham. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton
family of Massachusetts (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
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Appleton, John
(1815-1864) —
of Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Beverly, Essex
County, Mass., February
11, 1815.
Democrat. Lawyer; newspaper
editor; U.S. Charge d'Affaires to Bolivia, 1848-49; U.S.
Representative from Maine 2nd District, 1851-53; U.S. Minister to
Russia, 1860-61.
Died in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, August
22, 1864 (age 49 years, 193
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Portland, Maine.
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Relatives: Son
of John White Appleton and Sophia (Williams) Appleton; married 1840 to Susan
Lovering Dodge; nephew of James Appleton and
Nathan Dane Appleton; first cousin once
removed of Nathan Appleton, William Appleton, Elijah
Livermore Hamlin and Hannibal
Hamlin; first cousin thrice removed of Randolph
Appleton Kidder; second cousin of John
Appleton (1804-1891), Jane
Pierce, Charles
Hamlin and Hannibal
Emery Hamlin; second cousin once removed of Isaiah
Kidder Stetson; second cousin twice removed of Arthur Taggard Appleton and Clarence
Cutting Stetson; second cousin thrice removed of Pierpont
Edwards, Leverett
Saltonstall and Richard
Saltonstall; second cousin four times removed of William
Lawrence Saltonstall; third cousin of Edward
Williams Hooker; third cousin twice removed of John
Davenport, Aaron
Burr, James
Davenport, Theodore
Dwight and Henry
Waggaman Edwards; fourth cousin of Thomas
Passmore Treadwell; fourth cousin once removed of John Appleton (1758-1829), Thomas Appleton, Leonard
White, Jedediah
Sabin, Charles
Robert Sherman, Theodore
Davenport, Chauncey
Fitch Cleveland, Robert
Odiorne Treadwell and George
Pickering Bemis. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Sprague
family of Providence, Rhode Island; Biddle-Randolph
family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton
family of Massachusetts; Beakes-Greene-Witter
family; Shippen-Middleton
family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — U.S.
State Dept career summary — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Appleton, John James
(1792-1864) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Calais, France,
September
22, 1792.
U.S. Charge d'Affaires to Portugal, 1820-21; Sweden, 1826-30.
Died in Rennes, France,
March
4, 1864 (age 71 years, 164
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Appleton, John William Messer
(1832-1913) —
also known as John W. M. Appleton —
of Charleston, Kanawha
County, W.Va.; Union, Monroe
County, W.Va.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., April 1,
1832.
Republican. Major in the Union Army during the Civil War; Adjutant
General of West Virginia, 1897-1901.
Killed by a mad
bull, in Union, Monroe
County, W.Va., October
26, 1913 (age 81 years, 208
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Appleton, Nathan
(1779-1861) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in New Ipswich, Hillsborough
County, N.H., October
6, 1779.
Merchant;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1815-16, 1821, 1823-24, 1827; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 1st District, 1831-33, 1842.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., July 14,
1861 (age 81 years, 281
days).
Interment at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of Isaac Appleton and Mary (Adams) Appleton; married, April
13, 1806, to Maria Theresa Gold; married, January
8, 1839, to Harriet Coffin Sumner; father of Francis Elizabeth
Appleton (who married of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow); first cousin of
James Appleton, William
Appleton and Nathan Dane Appleton; first
cousin once removed of John Appleton
(1804-1891), Jane
Pierce and John Appleton (1815-1864);
first cousin thrice removed of Arthur Taggard
Appleton; first cousin four times removed of Leverett
Saltonstall, Richard
Saltonstall and Randolph
Appleton Kidder; first cousin five times removed of William
Lawrence Saltonstall; second cousin once removed of Andrew
Adams; third cousin once removed of Thomas
Passmore Treadwell; third cousin twice removed of Robert
Odiorne Treadwell; third cousin thrice removed of Charles
Willoughby Dayton; fourth cousin of John
Appleton (1758-1829), Thomas Appleton
and Leonard
White; fourth cousin once removed of John
James Appleton, Samuel
Finley Vinton, John
Larkin Payson and Alonzo
Sidney Upham. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton
family of Massachusetts (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Appleton, Nathan Dane
(1794-1861) —
also known as Nathan D. Appleton —
of Alfred, York
County, Maine.
Born in Ipswich, Essex
County, Mass., May 20,
1794.
Lawyer;
law partner of John
H. Goodenow; Maine
state attorney general, 1857-59.
Died in Alfred, York
County, Maine, November
12, 1861 (age 67 years, 176
days).
Interment at Parish Cemetery, Alfred, Maine.
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Appleton, Owen
(1909-1937) —
of Springfield, Hampden
County, Mass.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Springfield, Hampden
County, Mass., November
1, 1909.
Communist. Candidate for New York
state assembly from New York County 12th District, 1933.
Lieutenant in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade (U.S. volunteers for the
Republican or anti-Fascist side in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39);
killed in action at Fuentes de Ebro, Spain,
October
17, 1937 (age 27 years, 350
days).
Interment at Springfield
Cemetery, Springfield, Mass.
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Appleton, R. Ross —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
New York, 1892;
candidate for Presidential Elector for New York.
Burial location unknown.
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Ross See R. Ross
Appleton |
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Appleton, Thomas
(1763-1840) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Massachusetts, April 2,
1763.
U.S. Consul in Leghorn, 1798-1840, died in office 1840.
Died in Leghorn (Livorno), Italy,
April
27, 1840 (age 77 years, 25
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Appleton, William
(1786-1862) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Brookfield, Worcester
County, Mass., November
16, 1786.
U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1851-55, 1861 (1st District
1851-53, 5th District 1853-55, 1861); defeated, 1854, 1856.
Died in Brookline, Norfolk
County, Mass., February
15, 1862 (age 75 years, 91
days).
Interment at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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Appleton, William M. —
of Ingomar, Allegheny
County, Pa.
Republican. Member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives from Allegheny County 14th
District; elected 1964.
Still living as of 1964.
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