Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Appleton, Samuel
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Bristol Township


SAMUEL APPLETON manufacturer, Bristol, was born in 
Leicester, England, May 22, 1831.  He came to America I 
1850, landed at New York, and engaged as a workman in a 
factory at Germantown.  In 1858 he began the manufacture of 
woolen goods at Palethorp and Oxford streets, Philadelphia, 
in a factory thirty by sixteen feet.  In 1856 Mr. Appleton 
became general manager for Schofield & Branson, in 
Philadelphia.  In 1866 he returned to Palethorp and Oxford 
and built the present Phoenix mills there.  He removed to 
Bristol in 1873 and became manager of the Bristol woolen 
mills, then owned by Thomas Hugh & Co.  In 1879 the 
construction of the Providence hosiery mill was begun by 
Mrs. Clara Appleton, who married the subject of this sketch 
in 1865.  The factory first built was sixteen by thirty 
feet; this has been enlarged with the growth of business 
until at present the plant is valued at $76,000. About two 
hundred operatives are employed, while the annual product 
aggregates several hundred thousand dozens of hose of every 
description.