Appleton, William. Selections from the diaries of William Appleton, 1786-1862. Boston: Merrymount Press, 1922.
APPLETON, William, (cousin of Nathan Appleton), a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Brookfield, Mass., November 16, 1786; attended schools in New Ipswich, N.H., Francestown, N.H., and Tyngsboro, Mass.; worked in a country store at Temple, Hillsboro County, N.H., when fifteen years of age; moved to Boston in 1807; engaged in mercantile pursuits; president of the Boston Branch of the United States Bank 1832-1836; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-second and Thirty-third Congresses (March 4, 1851-March 3, 1855); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1854 to the Thirty-fourth Congress and for election in 1856 to the Thirty-fifth Congress; elected as a Constitutional Unionist to the Thirty-seventh Congress and served from March 4, 1861, to September 27, 1861, when he resigned because of failing health; died at Longwood (Brookline), Mass., February 15, 1862; interment in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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Appleton and Burlingame, which shall be your representative? [Boston: N.p., 1858?]
Loring, Susan Mason Lawrence. William and Mary Ann Appleton, 1815, and their descendents, 1915. Boston: [D.B. Updike], 1915.
Robbins, Chandler. Memoir of Hon. William Appleton. Prepared agreeably to a resolution of the Massachusetts historical society. Boston: Printed by J. Wilson and Son, 1863
Wells, E[leazer] M[ather] P[orter]. "They rest from their labors and their works do follow them." A discourse occasioned by the death of the Hon. William Appleton, delivered at St Stephen's chapel, Sunday, Feb. 23d. Boston: [Printed by A. Mudge and son], 1862.