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 HERRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Appleton, James, soldier, temperance reformer, was born on Feb. 14, 1786, in Ipswich, Mass. When a young man lie was elected to the legislature of his native state. During the war with Great Britain he served as a colonel of Massachusetts militia; and after the close of the war was made a brigadiergeneral. In 1836-37 he served as a member of the Maine state legislature. 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 state legislature in 1837 he was the first to expound the principle- embodied in the Maine law. He died Aug. 35, 1863, in Ipswich, Mass. Appleton, Jesse, clergyman, educator, college president, was born Nov. 17, 1773, in N"ew Ipswich, N.H. In 1793 he graduated

from Dartmouth colland then for two years was an instructor in Dover and in Amherst. In 1795 he ege;

was

licensed to preach;

and for ten years

filled

a pastorate in Hampton, N.H. In 1803 he filled the chair of theology at Cambridge; and in 1807 became president of B'owdoin

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college. vohime of his addresses has been published; and a selection from his sermons and poems has also

been published in two volumes. He died Nov. 13, 1819, in Brunswick, Maine. Appleton, John, lawyer, jurist, was bom July 13, 1804, in New Ipswich, N.H. He was eminent as a legal reformer. In 1853-63 he was a justice of the state supreme court; and in 1863-83 was chief justice. He was the author of The Eules of Evidence Stated and Discussed. He died Feb. 7, 1891, in Bangor, Maine. Appleton, John, physician, lecturer, author, was bom Jan. 9, 1809, in Salem, Mass. 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 in February, 1869, in Cambridge, Mass. Appleton, John, journalist, diplomat, congressman, was born Feb. 11, 1815, in Beverly, Mass: In 1837 he was admitted to practice law at Portland, Maine. In 1848-49 he was in Bolivia as United States charge d' affaires. In 18,51-53 he was a representative from Maine to the thirty-second congress. In 1857 he was appointed assistant secretary of state; and in 1860 was appointed United States minister to Russia;. He died Aug. 33, 1864, in Portland, Maine. Appleton, John Adams, publisher, was born Jan. 9, 1817, in Boston, Mass. In 1848 he became a partner in his father's business. He died July 13, 1881, on Staten Island, N.Y. Appleton, John Francis, soldier, lawyer, jur-

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ist, was bora on Aug. 30, 1839, in Bangor, Maine. At the beginning of the civil war he raised and commanded a company in the twelfth regiment Maine volunteers. He was commissioned colonel in the eighty-first regiment United States colored troops served in

the department of the gulf; and was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers in 1865. He died Aug. 31, 1871, in Bangor, Maine. Appleton, John Howard, educator, author, was born Feb. 3, 1844, in Portland, Maine. Since 1868 he has been a professor of chemistry in Brown university. He is the author of The Young Chemist; Qualitative Analysis; Quantitative Analysis; Chemistry of Non Metals The Metals of the Chemist ; and The

Carbon Compounds. Appleton, John James, diplomat, was born Sept. 23, 1793, in Calais, France. He was secretary of legation of the United States to Portugal in 1819-33; to Spain in 183335; charge d'affaires to the Two Sicilies in 1835; 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, 1833, in Boston, Mass. In 1852-56 he was assistant

librarian

of

the Boston public library; and was clerk in the board of charities of that city. In 1862-65 he served as a private soldier, lieutenant and captain; was promoted to major of infantry and subsequently was commander of battalion of six batteries of artillery. In 1865 he moved to West Virginia; and then 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. He is one of the vice-presidents of the interstate national guard association. Appleton, Nathan, manufacturer, founder,

congressman, was

bom

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 state legislature of Massachusetts. In 183133 he was a representative from Massachusetts to the twenty-second congress; and was again elected to congress in 1842 to fill a vacancy, but soon resigned his seat. He died July 14, 1861, in Boston, Mass. Appleton, Nathan Dane, lawyer, statesman, was born in 1794 in Ipswich, Mass., on the farm which was bought in 1634 by his emigrant ancestor, Samuel Appleton. He repeatedly represented his town in the state legislature; was once in the state senate of