D. Appleton & Company

D. Appleton & Company
D. Appleton & Company
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Status Defunct
Founded 1831
Founder Daniel Appleton
Successor Appleton-Century
Country of origin United States
Headquarters location New York, New York


D. Appleton & Company was an American company founded by Daniel Appleton (December 10, 1785 - March 27, 1849), who opened a general store which included books.

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Timeline

  • 1813 Relocated from Haverhill to Boston and imported books from England
  • 1825 Relocated to New York City and entered the book business with brother-in-law Jonathan Leavitt
  • 1831 Published first book: Crumbs from the Master's Table by William Mason (1719-1791)
  • 1848 Daniel Appleton retired; son William Henry Appleton (1814-1899) formed a partnership with his brothers, John Adams Appleton (1817-1881), George Swett Appleton (1821-1878), Daniel Sidney Appleton (1824-1890), and Samuel Francis Appleton (1826-1883)
  • 1849 Death of Daniel Appleton
  • 1857 First New York trade publisher to engage in subscription publishing
  • 1872 Popular Science magazine started
  • 1875 Original publication of the memoirs of General William Tecumseh Sherman, one of the first such publications by a Civil War general
  • 1880 Co-founded American Book Company
  • 1881 Relocated from Leonard Street and Broadway, to Bond Street, New York City
  • 1894 Published Songs of the Soil by Frank Lebby Stanton
  • 1900 Filed for bankruptcy and sold Popular Science; re-organized by Joseph H. Sears of Harper's
  • 1919 J.W. Hiltman named president
  • 1924 Purchased Stewart Kidd Publisher Co, founded in 1914
  • 1933 Merged with The Century Company., founded in 1881, to form the Appleton-Century Company
  • 1945 Sold hymn books department to Revell Publishing
  • 1948 Merged with F.S. Crofts Co., founded in 1924, to form Appleton-Century-Crofts.
  • 1960 Purchased by Meredith Publishing Company
  • 1973 Appleton division purchased by Prentice Hall
  • 1974 New Century division sold to Charles Walther, and eventually became part of Academic Learning Company, LLC
  • 1998 Prentice Hall merged with Pearson Education
  • 2003 Academic Learning Company, LLC acquired New Win Publishing, which was a division of New Century Publishing

Publishing Highlights

See also

  • Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography

References

External links


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