BIOGRAPHY: Appelman, Richard B.
From the A.T. Andreas Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Iowa, 1875

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Captain RICHARD B. APPELMAN. – Mr. Appelman was born at Mystic, 
Connecticut, March 15, 1827; attended school until 13 years of age, when he 
commenced a sea-faring life and continued it is actively until 1849, serving in every 
position from cabin boy of a whaler to captain of a merchantman.  He has been in 
nearly every ocean on the globe, and had all the hardy experiences of a sailor's life.  He 
settled at Clermont in 1854, where he has since resided.  June 16, 1856, he married Miss 
Mary J. Thompson, of that place.  They have a family of seven children: Mary J., John, 
William H., Irene P., Genevieve, Ruth and Frances.  In 1863 he went to New York, shipped 
as mate on the Pacific, and went to Bermuda to collect tropical fish for P. T. Barnum's 
aquarium.  Had a very successful trip.  Being largely interested in real estate at Clermont, 
on the completion of the B. C. R. &M. Railroad he opened his large private residence as 
a hotel, and it is popularly known as the New England House.