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missions, 1879-'93. and deputy to the general con- vention, 1880, 1883, 1886. He received the degree of D.D. from South Carolina university in 1888, and from the University of the south in 1893. He was consecrated coadjutor bishop of South Carolina, July 20, 1893, and on the death of Bishop Howe, Nov. 24, 1894, became sole adminstrator of the diocese.

CAPERS, William, M. E. bishop, was born in St. Thomas parish, S. C, Jan. 26, 1790, son of a revolutionary soldier of Huguenot descent. He was educated at an academy in Statesburg, S. C, and at South Carolina college. He was not grad- uated, but in 1808 entered a law office, and after a few months of study decided to become a Metho- dist preacher, and was licensed Nov. 25, 1808. In 1816 he started a school in Georgetown, S. C, and after two years resumed his work in the church. For a time he was missionary tc the Creek Indians, and later was editor of the }Ves- leyan Journal. In 1827 he was chosen presiding elder of the Charleston district, which he repre- sented at the conference in England the follow- ing year. He refused in 1829 a professorship in Franklin college, Georgia, and later the presi- dency and professional chairs of several southern colleges. He edited the Southern Christian Ad- vocate, and in 1840 was elected secretary of the southern missionary district, holding the office four years. In May, 1846, he was consecrated bishop of the southern branch of the Methodist Episcopal church. He wrote a Catechism for Methodist Missionaries in instructing the Negroes; an autobiography published after his death, to wliich was appended a memoir by the Rev. Dr. Wightman (1858), and Short Sermons and Tales for Children. He died Jan. 29, 1855.

CAPERTON, Allen Taylor, senator, was born near Union, Monroe county, Va., Nov. 21, 1810. He was educated at Huntsville, Ala., and in the university of Virginia, and after his graduation at Yale college in 1832 he studied law at Staunton Va., and there engaged in its practice. He was a member of the Virginia house of delegates and of the state senate, his last senatorial term ending in 1860. Asa member of the Virginia state con- vention, which met in 1861 to consider the im- pending troubles, he stood for the Union, but when the state seceded lie espoused the cause of the Confederacy. He was a member of the Con- federate states senate from 1863 to 1865, and after the close of the war he resumed his law practice. He rendered valuable service to the new state of West Virginia in bringing its rich coal, timber and grazing lands to the notice of the capitalists. His political disabilities were removed by President Johnson, and in 1875 he was elected to the U. S. senate from West Virginia. He died in Washing- ton, D. C, July 26, 1876.

CAPPA, Carlo, Alberto, bandmaster, was born at Alessandria, Sardinia, Dec. 9, 1834, son of a major in the Sardinian army. He attended the Royal academy at Asti, 1844-'9; enlisted in the band of the 6th lancers and afterward in the U. S. navy, making a two years' cruise in the Congress, and becoming leader of the ship's band. He joined Kendall's band in 1858. and later Slicl- ton's New York band of which (Jrafulla was leader. He continued with GrafuUa when he became leader of the 7th regiment band 1860-'8], and succeeded him as leader in 1881; played fiist trombone in the Theodore Thomas orchestra 18G9- '76; the euphonium with the Mapleson opera company, three years; and with the Philharmonic society in New York and Brooklyn five years. He filled engagements in the principal cities in the United States and Canada as leader of the 7th regiment band. He was kniglited by tiie King of Italy and the Venezuelan government and received various medals. He died in New York city, Jan. 6, 1893.

CAPRON, Adin Ballou, repre.sentative, was born in Mendon, Mass., Jan. 9, 1841; son of Car- lile W, and Abby (Bates) Capron. He was educated at Woonsocket high school and s:::>se- quently attended Westbrook seminary, Maine. He enlisted as a sergeant in the 2d Rhode Island infantry in May, 1861, and was promoted succes- sively sergeant-major, July 11, 1861, lieutenant, September, 1861, and 1st lieutenant m the U.S. signal corps, March 3, 1863. He served through the war, and received the brevets of captain and major. lie was representative in the state legis- lature, 1887-92; speaker of the house, 1891-92; and a Republican representative from Rhode Island in the 54th, 55th, 56th, 57th and 58th con- gresses, 1895-1905.

CARDENAS, Luis Penalver Y, first R. C.l bislioji of New Orleans, was born in Havana, Cuba, April 3, 1749; son of Don Diego Penalver and Maria Louisa de Cardenas. He entered the Jesuit college of St. Ignatius, in Havana, to pur- sue his theological course, and there remained until the Jesuits were expelled from the Spanish dominions by Charles III.; he then j^assed to the University of St. Jerome, where he obtained his doctor's degree in 1771, and in the same year was appointed vicar-general to the bishop of Sanliar';o de Cuba. In 1793, when New Orleans was ma^^e an independent see, he became its first bishop. The papal bulls appointing him bear date April 25, 1793; he was consecrated at Havana in the same year, but did not take formal possession of his diocese until 1795. In 1802 he Avas trans- ferred to the see of Guatemala, where he was archbishop for four years, When he in 1806 re- turned to Havana, where he devoted lii::iself to charitable works, and died July 17, 1810.