The New International Encyclopædia/Appleton, Jesse

APPLETON, Jesse (1772-1819). An American educator. He was born at New Ipswich, N. H. ; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1792, and was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church, Hampton. N. H., in 1797. From 1807 to 1819 he was president of Bowdoin College. President Franklin Pierce was his son-in-law.