- Thomas Gold Appleton
Thomas Gold Appleton (March 31, 1812 – April 17, 1884), son of merchant
Nathan Appleton , was an American writer, an artist, and a patron of the fine arts.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was his brother-in-law after he married Appleton's sister Frances.Appleton was born in
Boston, Massachusetts , and graduated fromHarvard College in 1831. He was known for his witticisms, one of which, the oft-quoted "Good Americans, when they die, go to Paris", is sometimes attributed toOliver Wendell Holmes . He published some poems and, in prose, "Nile Journal" (1876), "Syrian Sunshine" (1877), "Windfalls" (1878), "Chequer-Work" (1879).References
*"Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume 1607-1896." Chicago: Quincy Who's Who, 1963.
External links
* [http://www.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/thomasappleton.html Thomas Gold Appleton] Dictionary of Unitarian & Universalist Biography
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