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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1919. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... HARVARD COLLEGE CLASS OF 1869 FRANCIS HENRY APPLETON. Born at Number 1, Louisburg Square, in Boston, June 17, 1847. Son of Francis Henry Appleton (Harvard, 1842) and Georgiana Crowninshield Silsbee Appleton, who was a daughter of the Honorable Nathaniel Silsbee and Mary (Crowninshield) Silsbee, of Salem. Married at the First Church, Boston, June 2,1874, to Fanny, daughter of Sewell and Elizabeth Rollins Tappan; d. March, 1906. Children: Marian, b. March 14, 1876; m. Tarrant Putnam King (A.B. Harvard, 1891). Children: Appleton, b. March 15, 1899. Appleton King, Harvard, 1921, left College in April, 1918, and joined the Royal Canadian Air Force. He remained in training with this or- ganization until he was discharged in February, 1919, when he returned to his class in College. Dorothy, b. October 2,1901. Putnam, b. September 4, 1903. William Tappan, b. August 31, 1908. Amy Silsbee, b. March 4, 1881; m. at Emmanuel Church, Boston, January 10, 1911, Dr. Frederic A. Washburn (A.B. Amherst, 1892; M.D. Harvard, 1896). Child: Amy, b. July 6,1913. Dr. Washburn was attached to the Medical Department of the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment at Porto Rico for two years; and for a like period he was connected with the Medical Department of the Twentysixth Regiment, U.S. Volunteers, in the Philippine Islands, during the War with Spain. In July, 1917, he went to Bordeaux, as Major, at the head of the Massachusetts General Hospital Unit. He guided the formation of the large hospital at Bordeaux, until he was ordered by the United States Government to proceed to London, where he became Chief Surgeon of the American Expeditionary Forces in England. He had returned, at the time of this writing, with the rank of Colonel. Francis Henry, Jr., b. December 17, 1882 (A.B. Harvard, 1...
