Nathaniel Appleton
Nathaniel Appleton (born October 5, 1731 in Boston , Province of Massachusetts Bay , † June 17, 1798 ) was an American businessman and government commissioner of loans . He is best known for his influential abolitionist writing Considerations on slavery (1767).
Appleton was the son of the well-known clergyman Nathaniel Appleton (1693–1783). Appleton Jr. graduated from Harvard College in 1749 and became a businessman. He initially traded and produced candles, later he made a fortune with land and overseas trading. Appleton held numerous honorary and electoral offices and functions in the city of Boston and its institutions (such as Harvard College and the Massachusetts Historical Society ) and in the organizational side of the American Revolution while he was buying his way out of the fighting.
In 1794, Appleton was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
literature
- Jose R. Torre: Appleton, Nathaniel (1731-98). In: Mark Spencer (Ed.): The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of the American Enlightenment. Volume I, Bloomsbury 2014, ISBN 978-0-8264-7969-3
Individual evidence
- ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter A. (PDF; 945 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved July 29, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Appleton, Nathaniel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American businessman and government representative |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 5, 1731 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Boston , Massachusetts |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 17, 1798 |