Thomas Gold Appleton
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Thomas Gold Appleton (31 March 1812 – 17 April 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.
He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard 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 to Oliver Wendell Holmes. He published some poems and, in prose, Nile Journal (1876), Syrian Sunshine (1877), Windfalls (1878), Chequer-Work (1879).
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[edit] References
- Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume 1607-1896. Chicago: Quincy Who's Who, 1963.
[edit] External links
- Thomas Gold Appleton Dictionary of Unitarian & Universalist Biography
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