Appleton

Appleton, DANIEL (1785-1849), the founder of the American publishing house of D. Appleton & Co., was born at Haverhill, Mass., where he commenced business as a retail trader. Removing to Boston, he afterwards settled as a bookseller in New York, and gradually built up one of the largest businesses of its kind in the United States. He retired in 1848 in favour of his three sons, of whom the last died in 1878. The success of the firm justified it in beginning, previous to 1857, the New American Cyclopædia, under the editorship of George Ripley and Charles A. Dana, which was completed in 1863, in sixteen volumes, at a cost of £100,000. A new edition was published in 1872-76. The same firm has issued many scientific and educational works.