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Cannon, Newton – Caperton, Hugh

Cannon, Newton

congressman, governor, was born about 1781, in Guilford county, N. C. He was a representative in congress from Tennessee from 1814 to 1817, and again from 1819 to 1823.

He was governor of Tennessee from 1835 to 1839. He died Sept. 29, 1842, in Harpeth, Tenn.

Cannon, William

state legislator, governor, was born in 1809, in Bridgeville, Del. He was for some years in the state legislature of Delaware; and was state treasurer and member of the peace congress of 1861. He was governor of Delaware from 1864 to 1865. He died March 1, 1865, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Canon, John W

educator, was born Feb. 11, 1844, in Mercer county, Pa. He graduated from the state normal school of Edinboro, Pa., and there taught for several years. He has been principal of the high schools of Franklin, Pa., and is now superintendent of public schools in Sharon, Pa.

Cant, William A

lawyer, state legislator, jurist, was born Dec. 23, 1863, in Westfield, Wis. In 1885 he graduated from the law department of the university of Michigan; and since 1886 has practiced his profession in Duluth, Minn.

In 1894 he was elected a member of the Minnesota house of representatives; was city attorney of Duluth in 1895; and was elected for a term of six years from 1896 a judge of the district court of Minnesota.

Cantine, John

congressman. He was elected a representative from New York to the eighth congress, but resigned soon after taking his seat.

Capehart, James

congressman, was born March 7, 1847, in Mason county, Va. He was president of the county court of Mason county, which position he held in 1871-72, and from 1880 to 1885. He was a delegate to the national democratic convention in 1888; and was elected to the fifty-second and fifty-third congresses as a democrat.

Capen, Elmer Hewitt

clergyman, college president, was born April 5, 1838, in Stoughton, Mass. He was a member of the Massachusetts legislature when only twenty-one years of age. He was ordained to the ministry in 1865; and has filled important pastorates in St. Paul, Minn., and Providence, R. I. Since 1875 he has been president of Tufts college.

Capen, Francis L

meteorologist, was born March 17, 1817, in Sterling, Mass. He made many astronomical discoveries and remarkable weather predictions, the latter gaining for him prominence on both sides of the Atlantic. He died July 31, 1889. a

Capen, Nahum

journalist, author, was born April 1, 1804, in Canton, Mass.

He was a Boston publisher who was postmaster in 1857-61, and introduced the custom of street letter-box collections. He was the author of The Republic of the United States; Reminiscences of Spurzheim and Combe; and History of Democracy, or Political Progress Historically Illustrated. He died in 1886, in Dorchester, Mass.

Capers, Ellison

bishop of South "Carolina, was born Oct. 14, 1837, in Charleston, S. C. He served throughout the war in the confederate service; and was three times severely wounded; and was promoted colonel and brigadier-general.

He was elected secretary of state in 1866.

Capers, William

bishop, author, was born Jan. 26, 1790, in St. Thomas parish, S. C. He was a methodist bishop once prominent in the south; and is the author of Cathechisms for Negro Missions; and Short Sermons and True Tales for Children. He died Jan. 29, 1855, in Anderson, S. C.

Caperton, Hugh

state legislator, congressman, was born in 1780, in Virginia. He was for many years a member of the state legislature; and was a representative in congress from the Greenbrier region of Virginia from 1813 to 1815. He died Feb. 9, 1847, in Monroe county, Va.