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William Worthen Appleton

1845–1923

American publisher. Son of William Henry Appleton and Mary Worthen. Started working for his father’s publishing firm, D. Appleton & Co., in 1865; became a partner in 1868.

Source

Overton 1925, pp. 3, 5, 55

Bibliography

Overton, Grant. 1925. Portrait of a publisher, and the first hundred years of the house of Appleton, 1825–1925. New York and London: D. Appleton and Company.

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