The New International Encyclopædia/Appleton, Samuel

APPLETON, Samuel (1760-1853). An American merchant and philanthropist, brother of Nathan Appleton, born at New Ipswich, N. H. He passed his boyhood on a farm. In 1794 he and his brother Nathan went into the English trade in Boston, and afterwards added cotton manufacturing, in which they made a fortune. He retired from active business in 1823. and devoted his entire income to benevolent and scientific purposes, for which he bequeathed $200,000.