Nathan Appleton

Nathan Appleton (October 6, 1779July 14, 1861) was an American merchant and politician and a member of the group of entrepreneurs known as "The Boston Associates". Early life Appleton was born in New Ipswich, New Hampshire, the son of Isaac Appleton (1731–1806) and his wife Mary Adams (1741–1827). Appleton's father was a church deacon, and Nathan was brought up in the "strictest form of Calvinistic Congregationalism". Appleton was also the cousin of William Appleton (1786–1862) and James Appleton (1785–1862). His paternal grandparents were Elizabeth Sawyer (1709–1785) and Isaac Appleton Jr. (1704–1794), the son of Isaac Appleton (1664–1747), who was the son of Major Samuel Appleton (1625-1696), and Priscilla Baker, granddaughter of Lt. Gov. Samuel Symonds. He was educated in the New Ipswich Academy. He then entered Dartmouth College in 1794, however, that same year he left college to begin mercantile life in Boston, Massachusetts, working for his brother Samuel (1766–1853), a successful and benevolent man of business, with whom he was in partnership from 1800 to 1809.