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Nathan Appleton ( October 1 , 1779 – July 14 , 1861 ) was an American merchant and politician born in New Ipswich, New Hampshire . He was educated in the New Ipswich academy, and in 1794 entered mercantile life in Boston in the employment of his brother, Samuel (1766-1853), a successful and benevolent man of business, with whom he was in partnership from 1800 to 1809. He co-operated with Francis C. Lowell and others in introducing the power-loom and the manufacture of Cotton on a large scale into the United States , a factory being esablished at Waltham, Massachusetts in 1814, and another in 1822 at Lowell, Massachusetts , of which city he was one of the founders. He was a member of the general court of Massachusetts in 1816, 1821, 1822, 1824 and 1827, and in 1831-1833 and 1842 of the national House Of Representatives , in which he was prominent as an advocate of protective duties. He died in Boston. REFERENCES
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