Capers, Ellison – Carey, Joshua Mullock
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, Allen Taylor
state legislator, congressman, state senator, was born Nov. 21, 1810, in Union, Va. He served in the legislature of Virginia a number of years; in 1861 was a member of the state convention to consider the impending troubles, 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 confederate senate; was pardoned by President Johnson after the war; and in 1875 was elected a senator in congress 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 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.
Cappeller, William S
public official, journalist, was born Feb. 23, 1839, in Somerset, Pa. During 1877-83 he was county auditor of Cincinnati, Ohio; and commissioner of railroads and telegraphs of Ohio in 1887-89. He was grand master of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Ohio in 1879-80; and in 1885 he established The Daily News of Mansfield, which is now one of the leading newspapers of Ohio. In 1895 he became 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.
Capron, Adin Ballou
soldier, congressman, was born Jan. 9, 1841, in Mendon, Mass. He enlisted as sergeant in second Rhode Island infantry in 1861; promoted to sergeant-major and lieutenant, and ordered on detached service in the signal corps in December, 1861. He served in the signal corps until the close of the war, having been commissioned first lieutenant in the signal corps, United States army, in 1863, and receiving promotion to the rank of captain and major by brevet. He was elected a representative to the general assembly of Rhode Island in 1887; served during 1888-92; and was speaker in 1891-92. He subsequently was elected a member of the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.
Capron, Allyn K
soldier, was born in New York. In 1890 he enlisted as a private soldier in the fourth cavalry; was appointed second lieutenant of infantry in 1893; joined Theodore Roosevelt's rough riders as captain in 1898; and was killed in battle, near Santiago, Cuba.
Capron, Horace
soldier, agriculturist, was born in New York. He was appointed to the charge of a factory in Maryland. He served in the army during the rebellion, and became a brigadiergeneral. In 1868 he was appointed commissioner of agriculture; and in 1871 was invited by the Japanese government to take charge of certain agricultural experiments and improvements in Japan, where he remained four years; returning to the United States in 1875. He died Feb. 23, 1885.
Cardozo, Isaac N
journalist, author, was born June 17, 1786, in Savannah, Ga. He became editor of the Southern Patriot in Charleston in 1816, and its sole proprietor in 1823. He took an active part in 1823 in the establishment of the Charleston chamber of commerce. He sold his paper in 1845, and in the same year established the Evening News, of which he became the commercial editor.
He was a contributor to the Southern Quarterly Review and other periodicals; and published Notes on Political Economy. He was drowned Aug. 26, 1850, in James River, Va.
Carey, Asa B
soldier, was born July 12, 1835, in Windham county, Conn. He was a cadet in the United States military academy in 1854; and in 1858 was brevetted lieutenant of the sixth infantry, United States army. He was constantly promoted and became lieutenant-colonel in 1865 for gallant and meritorious services in the war against the Navajo Indians; and became paymaster in 1867. He was promoted lieutenant-colonel and deputy paymaster-general in 1895.
Carey, Daniel Graham
physician, journalist, was born Nov. 22, 1842, near Middletown, N. Y. He has attained success as a physician and surgeon, and as the manufacturer of the Carey proprietary medicines. In 1883 he established the Waverly Farmer; and is the author of Doctor Carey's Guide to Health.
Carey, George
congressman, was born in Charles county, Md. He was a representative in congress from Georgia from 1823 to 1827. He died in 1844, in Upson county, Ga.
Carey, Henry Charles
economist, author, was born Dec. 15, 1793, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was one of the foremost of American political economists who advocated protection as a preliminary step toward ultimate free trade.
He opposed such theorists as Malthus and Ricardo, holding that human progress depends upon success in subjugating nature; that land values depend upon labor; and that the social well-being is directly dependent upon existing conditions. He was the author of Principles of Political Economy; The Credit System; The Principles of Social Science; Lectures on the Currency; Letters on Political Economy; Letters on International Copyright; Financial Crises; and The Unity of Law. He died Oct. 13, 1879, in Philadelphia.
Carey, Henry De Witt
business man, jurist, was born March 24, 1844, near Middletown, N. Y. He was a successful merchant of Middletown, N. Y.; for the past quarter of a century has been the manager of the export department of the New Home Sewing Machine company with headquarters at 28 Union square, New York city. He has always taken an active interest in democratic politics, and is a member of the Tammany society and the Sagamore and Pequod clubs, and of the American Historical society. For four years he was a justice of the peace at City Island, N. Y.; and in 1889-90 was judge of the court of general sessions of Westchester county, N. Y. He is a thirty-third degree member of the Masonic fraternity; and a member of the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Mr. Carey is president of the Pelham Park Street Railroad company; president of the Metropolitan dispensary; president of the board of trustees of the New York College of Midwifery, and other institutions.
Carey, Jeremiah E
lawyer, congressman, was born April 30, 1803, in Coventry, R. I. He was elected to congress from Cherry Valley county in 1842.
Carey, John
jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born April 5, 1792, in Monongahela county, Va. In 1814 he assisted in building the first stone house in Columbus. In 1825 he was elected an associate judge, which office he held for seven years. He was elected to the Ohio legislature in 1828, 1836, and 1843; and was elected a representative from Ohio to the thirty-sixth congress.
Carey, Joseph Maull
lawyer, legislator, and business man, was born July 19, 1845, in Milton, Del. He attended the Union college of Schenectady, N. Y.; and in 1867 graduated from the law department of the university of Pennsylvania. In 1869 he was appointed by President Grant as United States district attorney for the territory of Wyoming; and in 1872 he became associate justice of the supreme court of Wyoming, which position he filled with distinction for four years. In 1876 he was appointed a member of the United States centennial commission. Judge Carey was among the first to become interested in the great industry of cattle-raising on the plains; and for many years was president of the Wyoming Stockgrowers association. He was mayor of Cheyenne during 1880-82; and was instrumental in having Wyoming admitted to the union as a state. He was a member of the forty-ninth, fiftieth, and fifty-first congresses; and in 1891 was elected to the United States senate, serving with distinction in that body.
Carey, Joshua Mullock
soldier, physician, legislator, was born June 11, 1834, in Orange county, N. Y. In 1862 he graduated from the Eclectic Medical institute of Cleveland, Ohio. He served as a union soldier during the civil war, and was promoted to captain. He was justice of the peace for ten years; and in 1883-84 was a member of the house of representatives of Pennsylvania. During 1887-93 he practiced medicine in New York city, when he removed to Elmira.