D. Appleton & Company - Timeline

Timeline

• 1813 Relocated from Haverhill to Boston and imported books from England
• 1825 Relocated to New York City and entered the book business with brother-in-law Jonathan Leavitt
• 1831 Published first book: Crumbs from the Master's Table by William Mason (1719-1791)
• 1848 Daniel Appleton retired; son William Henry Appleton (1814-1899) formed a partnership with his brothers, John Adams Appleton (1817-1881), George Swett Appleton (1821-1878), Daniel Sidney Appleton (1824-1890), and Samuel Francis Appleton (1826-1883)
• 1849 Death of Daniel Appleton
• 1857 First New York trade publisher to engage in subscription publishing
• 1872 Popular Science magazine started
• 1875 Original publication of the memoirs of General William Tecumseh Sherman, one of the first such publications by a Civil War general
• 1880 Co-founded American Book Company
• 1881 Relocated from Leonard Street and Broadway, to Bond Street, New York City
• 1894 Published Songs of the Soil by Frank Lebby Stanton
• 1900 Filed for bankruptcy and sold Popular Science; re-organized by Joseph H. Sears of Harper's
• 1919 J. W. Hiltman named president
• 1924 Purchased Stewart Kidd Publisher Co, founded in 1914
• 1933 Merged with The Century Company., founded in 1881, to form the Appleton-Century Company
• 1945 Sold hymn books department to Revell Publishing
• 1948 Merged with F. S. Crofts Co., founded in 1924, to form Appleton-Century-Crofts.
• 1960 Purchased by Meredith Publishing Company
• 1973 Appleton division purchased by Prentice Hall
• 1974 New Century division sold to Charles Walther, and eventually became part of Academic Learning Company, LLC
• 1998 Prentice Hall merged with Pearson Education
• 2003 Academic Learning Company, LLC acquired New Win Publishing, which was a division of New Century Publishing