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 HBRRINGSHAW'S I^IBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Capers, Ellison, clergyman, bishop, was born Oct. 14, 1837, in Charleston, S.C. He was prepared for college in the best schools; and in 1857 graduated from the South Carolina military academy. He served as instructin or Mount Zion academy up to the outbreak of the civil war. In 1859 he was elected major in the first regiment of rifles in the South Carolina militia; and entered the service of the state at the first call to arms. He commanded the light battalion on Sullivan's island during the siege and bombardment of Fort Sumter; and became lieutenant-colonel of the first regiment of rifles. He served throughout the civil war; in 1864 was appointed brigadier-general; and was one of the youngest brigadiers in the confederate army. In 1866-68 he served as secretary of state. In 1883 was nominated for state superintendent of education, but declined the office. He received the degree of D.D. from the university of South Carolina, and received the same degree from the university of the south. In 1893 he was consecrated bishop of South Carolina; and in 1903 was elected chancellor of the university of the south at Sewanee, Tenn. He died April 23, 1908, in Columbia, S. C. Capers, John G., journalist, lawyer, statesman, was bom April 17, 1866, in Anderson, S.C. He was educated at Greenville and Charleston, S.C. He attained success in the practice of law. He has been district superintendent of education; and editor of the Columbja Daily Journal. He has been captain and major in the state national guard; and United States attorney in the department of justice at Washington, D.C. He has been United States district attorney for South Carolina under Presidents McKinley and Roosevelt, which position he still fills. In 1904 he was delegate-at-large from South Carolina to the republican convention held in Chicago. Capers, William, missionary, bishop, author, was born Jan. 26, 1790, in St. Thomas parish, S.C. He was secretary of the southern missionary district in 1840-44; and in 1846 was elected a bishop in the methodist church. He was the author of Catechisms

Negro Missions; and Short Sermons and True Tales for Children. He died Jan. 29, 1855, in Anderson, S.C. congressman. Caperton, Allen Taylor, United States senator, was born Nov. 21, 1810, in Union, Va. He served in the state legislature of Virginia a number of years; in 1861 was a member of the state convention to consider the impending trouble and took the side of the union; but when the state went out of the union he sided with the south. In 1863 he was elected to the for

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confederate senate; and was pardoned by President Johnson after the civil war. In 1875-77 he was United States senator from West Virginia. He died July 25, 1876, in Washington, D.C. Caperton, Hugh, state legislator, congressman, was born in 1780 in Virginia. He was for many years a member of the Virginia state legislature. In 1813-15 he was a representative from Virginia to the thirteenth congress. He died Feb. 9, 1847, in Monroe county, Va. Caples, William GofE, soldier, was bom in Missouri. He graduated from the United States military academy at West Point; and is now first lieutenant of engineers, stationed at Chattanooga, Tenn. Capp, William Musser, physician, author, was born Jan. 32, 1842, in Philadelphia, Pa. He graduated from the medical college of Philadelphia, Pa. He is the author of The

Daughter, Her Health; Education and Wedlock; Temptations; Habits; and Character. Cappeller, William S., journalist, publishfounder, was born Feb. 23, 1839, in Som-

er,

erset, Pa.

In 1877-83 he was county auditor of

Cincinnati,

Ohio

and was commissioner of railroads and telegraphs of Ohio during 1887-89.

He was

also

grana master of the independent order of odd fellows of Ohio in 1879-80. In 1885 he established the Daily

News which

of is

Mansfield, of

now one

the leading newspapers of Ohio; and in 1895-96 he served as president of the national editorial association. He is the president and general manager of the News printing company of Mansfield, Ohio; and takes an active part in the public affairs of his city,

county and

state.

Capps, Edward, educator, philologist, author, was born Dec. 31, 1866, in Jacksonville, 111. In 1887 he graduated with the degree of A.B. from the Illinois college at Jacksonville; and in 1901 received the degree of Ph.D. from Yale university. He also studied in the American school at Athens; and in

1894-95

at

Halle

university,

G ermany.

He was an

instructor

and tutor in Yale college; and in 1892-1907 was assistant professor, associate professor and professor of Greek in the univerity of Chicago. Since 1907 he has held the chair of classics in Princeton university of New Jersey. In 1901 he was president of the classical university of the middle west and south. In 1905-07 he