Samuel Applegate was born 19 July 1854 in Barnegat, Ocean, New Jersey. (Marriage document provides place of birth).
He married Martha Meidell on 2 January 1906 in Sioux, Iowa. They had two sons and one daughter:
Meidell P. Applegate (1907-1970)
Jess Applegate (1911-1974)
Dorothy Aldyth Applegate (1913-1981)
Samuel Applegate died near Mark Twain Cabin (No. 138 California Historical Landmark). Cabin is located in Tuolumne County near Sonora, California. He is buried in Plot 9, Lot 40-41.
In 1968 Jess and Meidel Applegate (his sons) donated various artifacts and personal papers of their father Samuel Applegate to the Alaska State Museum. Summary of same follows:
Historical
Samuel Applegate arrived in Alaska in 1881 where he was stationed at Unalaska as a weather observer for the U.S. Weather Bureau. Later he entered the fur trade and was the first to use some of the small Aleutian Islands as fox farms. Records of the fur trade operation are included in the papers. He did extensive trading and exploring of the Aleutians. His papers include hand-drawn maps and charts of the Herendeen Bay area where he and some partners attempted to explore a coal deposit; also sulphur mining activity on Unalaska Island. He had a trading post at Nikolski on Umnak Island. The collection includes various account books and records of the store and the schooner EVERETT HAYS.
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He married Martha Meidell on 2 January 1906 in Sioux, Iowa. They had two sons and one daughter:
Meidell P. Applegate (1907-1970)
Jess Applegate (1911-1974)
Dorothy Aldyth Applegate (1913-1981)
Samuel Applegate died near Mark Twain Cabin (No. 138 California Historical Landmark). Cabin is located in Tuolumne County near Sonora, California. He is buried in Plot 9, Lot 40-41.
In 1968 Jess and Meidel Applegate (his sons) donated various artifacts and personal papers of their father Samuel Applegate to the Alaska State Museum. Summary of same follows:
Historical
Samuel Applegate arrived in Alaska in 1881 where he was stationed at Unalaska as a weather observer for the U.S. Weather Bureau. Later he entered the fur trade and was the first to use some of the small Aleutian Islands as fox farms. Records of the fur trade operation are included in the papers. He did extensive trading and exploring of the Aleutians. His papers include hand-drawn maps and charts of the Herendeen Bay area where he and some partners attempted to explore a coal deposit; also sulphur mining activity on Unalaska Island. He had a trading post at Nikolski on Umnak Island. The collection includes various account books and records of the store and the schooner EVERETT HAYS.
www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/12387891/ms-3-samuel-applegate-papers-1892-1925-alaska-state-library
Samuel Applegate was born 19 July 1854 in Barnegat, Ocean, New Jersey. (Marriage document provides place of birth).
He married Martha Meidell on 2 January 1906 in Sioux, Iowa. They had two sons and one daughter:
Meidell P. Applegate (1907-1970)
Jess Applegate (1911-1974)
Dorothy Aldyth Applegate (1913-1981)
Samuel Applegate died near Mark Twain Cabin (No. 138 California Historical Landmark). Cabin is located in Tuolumne County near Sonora, California. He is buried in Plot 9, Lot 40-41.
In 1968 Jess and Meidel Applegate (his sons) donated various artifacts and personal papers of their father Samuel Applegate to the Alaska State Museum. Summary of same follows:
Historical
Samuel Applegate arrived in Alaska in 1881 where he was stationed at Unalaska as a weather observer for the U.S. Weather Bureau. Later he entered the fur trade and was the first to use some of the small Aleutian Islands as fox farms. Records of the fur trade operation are included in the papers. He did extensive trading and exploring of the Aleutians. His papers include hand-drawn maps and charts of the Herendeen Bay area where he and some partners attempted to explore a coal deposit; also sulphur mining activity on Unalaska Island. He had a trading post at Nikolski on Umnak Island. The collection includes various account books and records of the store and the schooner EVERETT HAYS.
www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/12387891/ms-3-samuel-applegate-papers-1892-1925-alaska-state-library
He married Martha Meidell on 2 January 1906 in Sioux, Iowa. They had two sons and one daughter:
Meidell P. Applegate (1907-1970)
Jess Applegate (1911-1974)
Dorothy Aldyth Applegate (1913-1981)
Samuel Applegate died near Mark Twain Cabin (No. 138 California Historical Landmark). Cabin is located in Tuolumne County near Sonora, California. He is buried in Plot 9, Lot 40-41.
In 1968 Jess and Meidel Applegate (his sons) donated various artifacts and personal papers of their father Samuel Applegate to the Alaska State Museum. Summary of same follows:
Historical
Samuel Applegate arrived in Alaska in 1881 where he was stationed at Unalaska as a weather observer for the U.S. Weather Bureau. Later he entered the fur trade and was the first to use some of the small Aleutian Islands as fox farms. Records of the fur trade operation are included in the papers. He did extensive trading and exploring of the Aleutians. His papers include hand-drawn maps and charts of the Herendeen Bay area where he and some partners attempted to explore a coal deposit; also sulphur mining activity on Unalaska Island. He had a trading post at Nikolski on Umnak Island. The collection includes various account books and records of the store and the schooner EVERETT HAYS.
www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/12387891/ms-3-samuel-applegate-papers-1892-1925-alaska-state-library
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