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9, 1898. lie received a common-school education ; 

 became a clerk in an iron manufacturing establish- 

 ment at an early age ; was promoted to the super- 

 intendency, and continued in the business of man- 

 aging iron works in Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and 

 Missouri till 1850. He then removed to La Salle, 

 where he was elected mayor in 1852 and 1853 ; 

 member of the legislature in 1858 and 1859, and 

 delegate to the State Constitutional Convention in 

 1862. In 1875 he was elected to Congress as an 

 Independent, serving one term. He. was widely 

 known as the " father of the Greenbackers." 



Campbell, Hugh J., jurist, born in Pennsyl- 

 vania in 1831 ; died in Yankton, S. D., April 19, 

 1898. He removed to Muscatine, Iowa, in early 

 life, and was studying law there when the civil war 

 broke out. Under a commission from Gov. Kirk- 

 wood he raised the first regiment of Iowa' volun- 

 teers, and at the close of the war had reached the 

 rank of brigadier general. He then finished his 

 law studies, was admitted to the bar, and removed 

 to Louisiana to practice. While there he was ap- 

 pointed a United States court judge, and after the 

 presidential election of 1876 presided over the con- 

 test of the rival presidential electors, his decision 

 giving the electoral vote of the State to the Repub- 

 lican candidate. In 1877 he removed to Dakota 

 Territory, and for some time held the office of 

 United States district attorney. He was a leader 

 in the movement for dividing and admitting the 

 Territory as two States ; was a delegate to the 

 various conventions ; and was known throughout 

 South Dakota as the " father of Statehood." 



Capron, Allyn, soldier, born in Tampa, Fla., 

 Aug. 27, 1846 ; died near Fort Myer, Va., Sept. 18, 

 1898. He was a son of Capt. Erastus A. Capron, 

 who was killed at Churubusco in the Mexican War. 

 He was graduated at the United States Military 

 Academy and commissioned a 2d lieutenant in 

 the 1st Artillery, June 17, 1867; promoted 1st 

 lieutenant, Aug. 19, 1873 ; and captain, Dec. 4, 

 1888. He devoted himself particularly to artillery 

 tactics and became an honor graduate of the Artil- 

 lery School in 1873. In the Spanish-American 

 War his battery accompanied Gen. Shafter's corps 

 to Cuba, and took part in the battle of Santiago. 

 He led the advance of Gen. Lawton's command, 

 July 1, 1898, and fired the first shot of the fight, 

 A shot from his battery tore away the Spanish flag 

 on the fort at El Caney, and his effective fire aided 

 in driving the Spaniards to the inner line of San- 

 tiago's defenses. He contracted typhoid fever as a 

 result of the Cuban campaign, and died three 

 weeks after his return home. His son, ALLEN Kis- 

 SAM CAPRON, was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., June 

 24, 1871 ; died at La Guasimas, Cuba, June 24, 

 1898. He was educated at the Brooklyn High 

 School ; enlisted in the army at Fort Myer, Oct. 20, 

 1890; was commissioned 2d lieutenant in the 5th 

 Infantry, October, 1893 ; and transferred to the 

 7th Cavalry, December, 1894. He enlisted in the 

 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry, popularly 

 known as the "Rough Riders," at Fort Sill, Indian 

 Territory ; was made a captain ; and was killed in 

 the battle of La Guasimas. 



Carpenter, Aloiizo P., jurist, born in Water- 

 ford, Vt., Jan. 28, 1829 ; died in Concord, N. H., 

 May 21, 1898. He was graduated at Williams Col- 

 lege in 184!), and became principal of the high 

 school in Bath, N. H. He studied law, was admit- 

 ted to the bar in 1853, and practiced in Bath till 

 1868, when he was appointed county solicitor. This 

 office he held for ten years, and then resumed pri- 

 vate practice. In 1881 he was appointed An asso- 

 ciate justice of the Supreme Court of New Hamp- 

 shire, and on the death of Chief-Justice Charles 

 Doe, in 1896, he was commissioned his successor on 

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the unanimous recommendation of his associates 

 and the bar of the State. He would have retired 

 by reason of age limitation in 1899. 



Carpenter, Cyrus C., surveyor, born in Susoue- 

 hanna County, Pa., in 1829 ; died in Fort Dodge, 

 Iowa, May 29, 1898. When ten years old he was 

 left an orphan without a dollar for his care. He 

 picked up a limited education in a district school, 

 and apprenticed himself to a tailor. Subsequently 

 lie attained considerable success as a fuller. In 

 1854 he removed to Iowa, engaged in surveying 

 Government lands, and taught the first school in 

 Fort Dodge. Then he became a land agent, and in 

 1858 was elected to the Legislature. He served in 

 the army through the civil war, was commissary of 

 subsistence on Gen. Dodge's staff for two years and 

 on Gen. Logan's for one year, and was mustered 

 out with the rank of lieutenant; colonel. In 1866 

 and in 1868 he was elected register of the State 

 Land Office, and in 1872-'76 he was Governor of 

 the State. He was admired by both political par- 

 ties for his inflexible integrity. 



Cartland, Joseph, educator, born in Lee, N. H., 

 in 1810; died in Newburyport, Mass., June 1, 1898. 

 He was of old Quaker stock, and was among the 

 original advocates of the abolition of slavery in the 

 United States. He adopted the profession of teach- 

 ing, was for many years superintendent of Haver- 

 ford Friends' College. Pennsylvania, and after his 

 marriage to Gertrude Whittier, a cousin of the poet, 

 he and his wife were joint principals of the Friends' 

 School at Providence, R. I. Much of the last part 

 of Whittier's life was passed with the Cartlands, 

 and they cared for him in his last illness. 



Case, Rufns King, military officer, born in Hun- 

 terdon County, N. J., Dec. 12, 1840 ; died in Plain- 

 field, N. J., June 18, 1898. When the civil war 

 broke ont he enlisted in the 6th New Jersey Volun- 

 teers, and was detailed to the quartermaster's de- 

 partment. He was mustered out in September, 

 1864, and two months afterward was commissioned 

 captain and assistant quartermaster of volunteers 

 by President Lincoln, and became assistant chief 

 quartermaster of the Army of the Potomac, with 

 which he served to the close of the war. In 1866 

 he was brevetted major for faithful and efficient 

 services, and lieutenant colonel, to date from March 

 13, 1865, " for gallant, faithful, and meritorious 

 services during the war." Shortly after the war he 

 entered the quartermaster's department of the reg- 

 ular army, and served as chief clerk of the New 

 York depot till his death. From the destruction of 

 the " Maine " he had worked days, nights, Sundays, 

 and holidays, his duties steadily increasing as the 

 war with Spain advanced, and this strain caused 

 his death. 



Cattell, William Cassidy, educator, born in 

 Salem, N. J., Aug. 30, 1827 ; died in Philadelphia, 

 Pa., Feb. 11, 1898. He was graduated at Princeton 

 College in 1848, and at Princeton Theological Semi- 

 nary in 1852; took a post-graduate course at the 

 seminary in Oriental languages, history, and bibli- 

 ography ; and was assistant principal of Edgehill 

 Seminary in 1853-'55. From 1855 till 1860 he occu- 

 pied the chair of Latin and Greek in Lafayette 

 College, Easton, Pa., and then for three years was 



Bistor of the Pine Street Presbyterian Church in 

 arrisburg. In 1863 he was called to the presidency 

 of Lafayette College, and in the ensuing twenty years 

 more than $1,000,000 was contributed to the insti- 

 tution through his efforts, and the grounds, build- 

 ings, and equipment were largely increased. The 

 General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in 

 the United States sent him as a commissioner to the 

 Presbyterian Church in Scotland in 1869, and to the 

 Reformed Church in Bohemia in 1S81. He resigned 

 the presidency of Lafayette in 1883. and had after- 



