Candler, John W – Capen, Nahum
Candler, John W
merchant, state senator, congressman, was born Feb. 10, 1828, in Boston, Mass. He was engaged in merchandising and maritime transportation, and was a representative in the state legislature in 1866. He was president of the board of trade and of the Commercial club of Boston, and was elected a representative from Massachusetts to the forty-seventh congress, and subsequently to the fifty-first congress.
Candler, Milton A
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Jan. 11, 1837, in Campbell county, Ga. He was a member of the state legislature from 1861 to 1863, and of the state constitutional convention in 1865. He was elected to the state senate in 1868 for four years; and was elected a representative from Georgia to the forty-fourth and forty-fifth congresses.
Candler, Warren A
educator, college president, was born Aug. 23, 1857, in Carroll county, Ga. In 1886 he was elected assistant editor of the Nashville Christian Advocate, and in 1888 was elected president of Emory college, being the youngest president ever elected to an American college.
Canfield, James H
college president, was born March 18, 1847, in Delaware, Ohio. In 1877 he was called to the state university of Kansas and remained there as professor of English literature and history; then of history and political science, and lastly of American history and civics; until 1891, when he became chancellor of the university of Nebraska.
He resigned in 1895 to become president of Ohio state university.
Canfield, John
railroad president, was born May 17, 1830, in Berkshire county, Mass. Since 1892 he has been president of the Manistee and Grand Rapids railway.
Cann, James Ferris
lawyer, was born Dec. 11, 1868, in Savannah, Ga. He received the rudiments of his education in the public schools of Savannah, attended the Georgia Military academy, and graduated in law from the university of Virginia. He has attained prominence as an able lawyer of his native city, where he is president of the Citizens' club, secretary of the Savannah volunteer guards, and first lieutenant of company C of that command. He is a prominent member of the Knights of Pythias and other fraternal bodies.
Cannon, Charles James
author, poet, was born Nov. 4, 1800, in New York city. Besides compiling a series of readers he published, among other works, Poems, Dramatic and Miscellaneous; Pencillings from the Web of Life, and a number of dramas now forgotten. He died Nov. 9, 1860, in New York city.
Cannon, Charles Wesley
pioneer, capitalist, was born July 1, 1836, in Cleveland, Ohio. He is the largest tax payer in Helena, Mont.; and is a leading spirit in gas, electric light and street railroad companies, and president of several of them. He is also vice-president of The Montana Central railway; and proprietor of a ranch of 3,000 acres, stocked with cattle, horses and sheep.
Cannon, Frank J
journalist, United States senator, was born Jan. 25, 1859, at Salt Lake City, Utah. He is a printer and newspaper writer. He was a delegate to the republican national convention at Minneapolis in 1892; was defeated for delegate to congress in 1892; and was elected delegate to congress in 1894; was elected to the United States senate Jan. 22, 1896.
Cannon, George Q
journalist, state legislator, congressman, was born Jan. 11, 1827, in England. He was elected a member of the legislative council of Utah in 1865, 1866, 1869, and the three succeeding years. In 1865 he was elected a regent of the Deseret university. At a constitutional convention held at Salt Lake City in 1872 he was elected a delegate to present the constitution and memorial to congress for the admission of the territory into the union as a state; and was elected delegate from Utah to the fortythird, forty-fourth, forty-fifth, forty-sixth, and forty-seventh congresses.
Cannon, Henry W
banker, was born in 1850, in Delhi, N. Y. He organized the Lumberman's National bank, of which he was made cashier. He was also secretary of the chamber of commerce of Stillwater; and secretary, treasurer and general manager of the water and gas companies of the city. In 1884 he was appointed comptroller of the currency in the United States treasury at Washington; and resigned in 1886 to accept the position of vice-president of the National Bank of the Republic of New York city.
Cannon, James Spencer
educator, clergyman, lecturer, was born in 1776, in West Indies. He was a Dutch reformed clergyman of New Jersey; and was professor of metaphysics at Rutgers college, 1826-56. He is the author of Lectures on Chronology; and Lectures on Pastoral Theology. He died in 1852.
Cannon, Joseph G
lawyer, congressman, was born May 7, 1836, in Guilford, N. C. He was state's attorney in Illinois from 1861 to 1868; and was elected to the forty-third, forty-fourth, forty-fifth, forty-sixth, forty-seventh, forty-eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, fiftyfirst, fifty-second, fifty-third, fifty-fourth, and fifty-fifth congresses as a republican.
Cannon, Marion
congressman, was born Oct. 30, 1834, in Morgantown, W. Va.
He was elected county recorder of Nevada county in 1869, and served two years.
When the Farmers' Alliance was introduced into California joined that order; and was unanimously elected its first state president in 1890. He organized the people's party of California in 1891; was chosen a representative to the supreme council at Indianapolis in 1891; was selected by that body to represent California in the industrial conference at St. Louis in 1892, and was chosen temporary chairman over that body; and was selected chairman of the California delegation to the national convention of the people's party at Omaha in 1892. He was elected to the fifty-third congress.
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, James A
poet, was born Jan. 3, 1840, in Boston, Mass. In 1861 he moved from his eastern home to the Rocky mountains in Colorado, and subsequently secured position in the United States mail service, running between Denver and Leavenworth, Kan.
He served through the war, enlisting in the seventh Kansas volunteer cavalry, and serving as volunteer soldier a four years and four days. He then settled in Missouri, where he still resides, in Sedalia. He has taught school for twenty years; and is now serving as quartermaster of Gen. George R. Smith Post No. 53, Department of Missouri, G. A. R.; and is assessor of his county. He is the author of some very fine poems; and as an elocutionist he has become well known in his adopted state.
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.