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William Henry Appleton (
January 27,
1814 –
October 19,
1899) was an
American publisher, eldest son and successor of
Daniel Appleton. He was born at
Haverhill, Massachusetts; he married the former Mary Moody Worthen in 1844.
Appleton began his career in publishing in 1838. In 1848 he became the senior member of the firm of
D. Appleton & Company, in partnership with his brother John Adams Appleton; they were joined in partnership by three younger brothers. W. H. Appleton became the firm's London representative in 1853. He was active in the struggle for an
international copyright, and served a term as president of the American Publishers Copyright League. His firm published works by a range of noteworthy authors, including
Lewis Carroll,
Arthur Conan Doyle,
Charles Darwin,
Thomas Henry Huxley,
Herbert Spencer, and
John Stuart Mill, as well as leading American scientists and philosophers of his era.
Among the reference books brought out by him were
The New American Cyclopœdia (1858–63);
Webster's Spelling Book (1858); cyclopædias of
Drawing (1857),
American Biography (1887–1900),
Applied Mechanics (1897), and an
Annual Cyclopœdia (1885–1903). He wrote
Letters on International Copyright (1872).
Appleton was a prominent figure in publishing for a period of sixty years. He lived at
Wave Hill (New York); the house was later turned into a
botanic garden in the
Riverdale section of
The Bronx,
New York.
Appleton City, Missouri was named after the publisher, in appreciation of his 1870 donation to the town's library.
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