page_title: Nathan Appleton
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Nathan Appleton / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Headstone for Appleton family plot at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Marks burial spot of Nathan Appleton, businessman and politician.
context_page_description: Nathan Appleton was an American merchant and politician and a member of "The Boston Associates".
context_section_description: Appleton married Maria Theresa Gold (1786–1833) on April 13, 1806. Two months later, he hired the artist Gilbert Stuart to paint portraits of the newlyweds. The couple had five children:
  Thomas Gold Appleton (1812–1884)
  Mary "Molly" Appleton (1813-?), who married British colonial governor Robert James Mackintosh
  Charles Sedgwick Appleton (1815–1835)
  Frances "Fanny" Elizabeth Appleton (1817–1861), who married the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in 1843.
  George William Appleton (1826–1827), who died in infancy.
  The Appletons attended Federal Street Church.  Maria Theresa Appleton died of tuberculosis in 1833. Nathan Appleton remarried on January 8, 1839, to Harriot Coffin Sumner (1802–1867), the daughter of Jesse Sumner, a Boston merchant, and Harriot Coffin of Portland, Maine.  They had three children:
  William Sumner Appleton (1840–1903), the father of William Sumner Appleton Jr. (1874–1947).
  Harriet Sumner Appleton (1841–1923), who married Union Army officer Greely S. Curtis
  Nathan Appleton Jr. (1843–1906)
  He gave his daughter Fanny, who married Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in 1843, a house in which her husband had rented rooms as a wedding gift (it is now known as the Longfellow House–Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site). He paid $10,000 for the home. Frances wrote to her brother Thomas on August 30, 1843: "We have decided to let Father purchase this grand old mansion", which was also a former headquarters of George Washington during the American Revolutionary War. Nathan Appleton also purchased the land across the street, as Longfellow's mother wrote, "so that their view of the River Charles may not be intercepted".
  Fanny Appleton died on July 10, 1861, after accidentally catching fire; her father was too sick to attend her funeral. Appleton died the next day in Boston on July 14, 1861.
caption: Grave of Nathan Appleton and other members of the Appleton family at Mount Auburn Cemetery
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