Appleton, Nathan, 1843-1906

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Boston businessman.

From the description of Correspondence, 1850-1899. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19105740

Army officer and merchant.

From the description of Nathan Appleton papers, 1850-1904 (bulk 1876-1902). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79455083

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1843, Feb. 2 Born, Boston, Mass. 1863 Graduated, Harvard College, Cambridge Mass. Commissioned junior second lieutenant of the Fifth Massachusetts Battery, Light Artillery, United States Volunteers 1864 Severely wounded in battle on the North Anna River in Virginia Resignation from army accepted; discharged for wounds 1864 1865 Visited Europe 1865 Became volunteer aide-de-camp to Brigadier General C. S. Wainwright, commander of the Artillery Brigade of the Fifth Army Corps Brevetted captain to rank for gallantr 1869 Toured northern Europe, western Russia, and Turkey with General Nathaniel Prentiss Banks As delegate of the Boston Board of Trade to the opening of the Suez canal, first met Count Ferdinand de Lesseps 1872 Bowles Brothers and Co., of which Appleton was a member, collapsed with serious injury to his personal fortune 1875 Delegate, conference of the association for the codification and reform of the law of nations, Hague, Netherlands 1877 Published Centennial Movement, 1876: A comedy in Five Acts. Boston: Lockwood, Brooks President, Free Trade Conference, Saratoga, N.Y. 1878 Delegate, International Congress for the Unification of Weights, Measures, and Coinage, Paris, France 1879 Delegate, Interfic Canal Congress, Paris, France Elected president, United States Board of Trade 1880 Interpreter for Count Ferdinand de Lesseps on his tour of the United States 1881 1888 American agent, Panama Canal Co. 1895 Traveled throughout Latin America 1887 Married Jeannette Ovington (separated 1889; divorced 1906) 1896 Visited Hawaii 1899 Member, Board of Overseers, Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass. 1904 Published Russian Life and Society as Seen in 1866-'67 by Appleton and Longfellow. Boston: [Press of Murray and Emery] 1905 Assisted at the peace conference culminating in the Treaty of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, N.H. 1906, Aug. 25 Died, Boston, Mass. From the guide to the Nathan Appleton Papers, 1850-1904, (bulk 1876-1902), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)

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