Appleton Family of Boston

Appleton Family of Boston is noteworthy family of the Boston Brahmin upper class society of New England. Many noteworthy descendants and connections. Appleton Family

Patrilineal Line

 * Daniel Appleton (1785–1849): publisher
 * Frances Appleton (d. 1861): wife of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
 * George Swett Appleton (1821–1878): publisher
 * Jane Means Appleton Pierce (1806–1863): wife of U.S. President Franklin Pierce, was First Lady of the United States from 1853 to 1857
 * Jesse Appleton (1772–1819): second president of Bowdoin College
 * John Appleton (1816–1864): assistant Secretary of State, diplomat, U.S. congressman
 * John Appleton: Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court
 * John F. Appleton: lawyer and Union colonel in the American Civil War
 * John James Appleton (1789–1864): ambassador
 * Nathan Appleton (1771–1861): U.S. congressman and merchant
 * Nathaniel Appleton (1693–1784): Congregational minister
 * Samuel Appleton (1625–1696): military and government leader in the Massachusetts Bay Colony and Province of Massachusetts Bay
 * Samuel Appleton (1766–1853): merchant and philanthropist
 * Thomas Gold Appleton (1812–1884): writer and art patron
 * William Appleton (1786–1862): U.S. congressman
 * William Henry Appleton (1814–1899): publisher
 * William Sumner Appleton (1874–1947): philanthropist

Other notable relatives

 * Thomas Storrow Brown (1803–1888): journalist, writer, orator, and revolutionary in Lower Canada (present-day Quebec)
 * Edward Augustus Holyoke (1728–1829): educator and physician
 * Alice Mary Longfellow (1850–1928): philanthropist and preservationist
 * Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow (1845–1921): artist
 * Alpheus Spring Packard (1839–1905): entomologist and palaeontologist
 * William Alfred Packard (1830–1909): classical scholar
 * Charles Storrow Williams (1827–?): Director of Railroad Transportation for the Confederate States of America
 * Edward H. Williams (1824–1899): physician and railroad executive