A native of Longton, England, he came to the States in 1852, first to Philadelphia, then to Iowa. He came to Anderson county, Kansas, in 1857. He was an uncompromising abolitionist.
He married Elizabeth McGrew in 1862.
He was a tinner by trade, and established a hardware and tin business.
He was part of a group which established the town of Longton, Kansas, naming it after his birth place.
He returned to Garnett about 1882.
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From the Topeka Mail and Kansas Breeze, April 9, 1897.
Death of Herbert Capper.
From the Garnett Eagle.
At 7 oclock Friday morning, Herbert Capper died at his home on North Oak street in this city, aged 64 years. His death was caused by la grippe, after an illness of three months.
Herbert Capper was born in Longton, England, April 5, 1833, but at a very early age he came to America. In 1857 he came to Kansas and took a claim along Potawatomie creek, near Garnett, where he resided until 1863, when he married Miss Belle McGrew of Wyoming, Iowa. The same year he established a hardware business in this city. In 1870 he, with John T. Lanter, C. P. Alvey and other old residents and capitalists of Garnett, organized the town of Longton, in Elk county, which was named in honor of Mr. Cappers English birthplace.
As a citizen, Mr. Capper was always loyal and enterprising, a man of much influence and greatly respected by all who knew him. In 1864 he was one of the first to enlist a volunteer company under the command of Captain McLauglin of this city, to defend the Kansas border for the Price raid. Before the war he was associated in Iowa with such well known abolitionists as Senator Harlin in maintaining underground railway for slave refugees.
His wife and four children survive him. Arthur, editor of the Topeka Mail and Breeze; May, stenographer in the office of county clerk at Topeka; Bessie, a teacher in the state deaf and dumb institute at Olathe, and Edith, who has lived with her parents in this city. His family were all with him at the time of his death.
In parting with Herbert Capper, there is hardly a resident of Garnett, young or old, but will stop to dwell upon his character as a man and a citizen, and will render to him the tribute which such a life deserves. The older citizens, his neighbors and friends, who have stood shoulder to shoulder with him in the early struggles of Kansas, who have known his adversity and prosperity; who have come in contact with him as friend as well as citizen; these will all morn his loss as a personal one, and the tears which will bedew his last resting place will be wrung from hearts which loved him. In the afternoon of life he lays down the burden of earth, but the work which he has done will live in the minds of those with whom he labored and his memory will be cherished in honor and in love.
-contributed by DJ (#47771158)
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He married Elizabeth McGrew in 1862.
He was a tinner by trade, and established a hardware and tin business.
He was part of a group which established the town of Longton, Kansas, naming it after his birth place.
He returned to Garnett about 1882.
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From the Topeka Mail and Kansas Breeze, April 9, 1897.
Death of Herbert Capper.
From the Garnett Eagle.
At 7 oclock Friday morning, Herbert Capper died at his home on North Oak street in this city, aged 64 years. His death was caused by la grippe, after an illness of three months.
Herbert Capper was born in Longton, England, April 5, 1833, but at a very early age he came to America. In 1857 he came to Kansas and took a claim along Potawatomie creek, near Garnett, where he resided until 1863, when he married Miss Belle McGrew of Wyoming, Iowa. The same year he established a hardware business in this city. In 1870 he, with John T. Lanter, C. P. Alvey and other old residents and capitalists of Garnett, organized the town of Longton, in Elk county, which was named in honor of Mr. Cappers English birthplace.
As a citizen, Mr. Capper was always loyal and enterprising, a man of much influence and greatly respected by all who knew him. In 1864 he was one of the first to enlist a volunteer company under the command of Captain McLauglin of this city, to defend the Kansas border for the Price raid. Before the war he was associated in Iowa with such well known abolitionists as Senator Harlin in maintaining underground railway for slave refugees.
His wife and four children survive him. Arthur, editor of the Topeka Mail and Breeze; May, stenographer in the office of county clerk at Topeka; Bessie, a teacher in the state deaf and dumb institute at Olathe, and Edith, who has lived with her parents in this city. His family were all with him at the time of his death.
In parting with Herbert Capper, there is hardly a resident of Garnett, young or old, but will stop to dwell upon his character as a man and a citizen, and will render to him the tribute which such a life deserves. The older citizens, his neighbors and friends, who have stood shoulder to shoulder with him in the early struggles of Kansas, who have known his adversity and prosperity; who have come in contact with him as friend as well as citizen; these will all morn his loss as a personal one, and the tears which will bedew his last resting place will be wrung from hearts which loved him. In the afternoon of life he lays down the burden of earth, but the work which he has done will live in the minds of those with whom he labored and his memory will be cherished in honor and in love.
-contributed by DJ (#47771158)
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A native of Longton, England, he came to the States in 1852, first to Philadelphia, then to Iowa. He came to Anderson county, Kansas, in 1857. He was an uncompromising abolitionist.
He married Elizabeth McGrew in 1862.
He was a tinner by trade, and established a hardware and tin business.
He was part of a group which established the town of Longton, Kansas, naming it after his birth place.
He returned to Garnett about 1882.
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From the Topeka Mail and Kansas Breeze, April 9, 1897.
Death of Herbert Capper.
From the Garnett Eagle.
At 7 oclock Friday morning, Herbert Capper died at his home on North Oak street in this city, aged 64 years. His death was caused by la grippe, after an illness of three months.
Herbert Capper was born in Longton, England, April 5, 1833, but at a very early age he came to America. In 1857 he came to Kansas and took a claim along Potawatomie creek, near Garnett, where he resided until 1863, when he married Miss Belle McGrew of Wyoming, Iowa. The same year he established a hardware business in this city. In 1870 he, with John T. Lanter, C. P. Alvey and other old residents and capitalists of Garnett, organized the town of Longton, in Elk county, which was named in honor of Mr. Cappers English birthplace.
As a citizen, Mr. Capper was always loyal and enterprising, a man of much influence and greatly respected by all who knew him. In 1864 he was one of the first to enlist a volunteer company under the command of Captain McLauglin of this city, to defend the Kansas border for the Price raid. Before the war he was associated in Iowa with such well known abolitionists as Senator Harlin in maintaining underground railway for slave refugees.
His wife and four children survive him. Arthur, editor of the Topeka Mail and Breeze; May, stenographer in the office of county clerk at Topeka; Bessie, a teacher in the state deaf and dumb institute at Olathe, and Edith, who has lived with her parents in this city. His family were all with him at the time of his death.
In parting with Herbert Capper, there is hardly a resident of Garnett, young or old, but will stop to dwell upon his character as a man and a citizen, and will render to him the tribute which such a life deserves. The older citizens, his neighbors and friends, who have stood shoulder to shoulder with him in the early struggles of Kansas, who have known his adversity and prosperity; who have come in contact with him as friend as well as citizen; these will all morn his loss as a personal one, and the tears which will bedew his last resting place will be wrung from hearts which loved him. In the afternoon of life he lays down the burden of earth, but the work which he has done will live in the minds of those with whom he labored and his memory will be cherished in honor and in love.
-contributed by DJ (#47771158)
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He married Elizabeth McGrew in 1862.
He was a tinner by trade, and established a hardware and tin business.
He was part of a group which established the town of Longton, Kansas, naming it after his birth place.
He returned to Garnett about 1882.
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From the Topeka Mail and Kansas Breeze, April 9, 1897.
Death of Herbert Capper.
From the Garnett Eagle.
At 7 oclock Friday morning, Herbert Capper died at his home on North Oak street in this city, aged 64 years. His death was caused by la grippe, after an illness of three months.
Herbert Capper was born in Longton, England, April 5, 1833, but at a very early age he came to America. In 1857 he came to Kansas and took a claim along Potawatomie creek, near Garnett, where he resided until 1863, when he married Miss Belle McGrew of Wyoming, Iowa. The same year he established a hardware business in this city. In 1870 he, with John T. Lanter, C. P. Alvey and other old residents and capitalists of Garnett, organized the town of Longton, in Elk county, which was named in honor of Mr. Cappers English birthplace.
As a citizen, Mr. Capper was always loyal and enterprising, a man of much influence and greatly respected by all who knew him. In 1864 he was one of the first to enlist a volunteer company under the command of Captain McLauglin of this city, to defend the Kansas border for the Price raid. Before the war he was associated in Iowa with such well known abolitionists as Senator Harlin in maintaining underground railway for slave refugees.
His wife and four children survive him. Arthur, editor of the Topeka Mail and Breeze; May, stenographer in the office of county clerk at Topeka; Bessie, a teacher in the state deaf and dumb institute at Olathe, and Edith, who has lived with her parents in this city. His family were all with him at the time of his death.
In parting with Herbert Capper, there is hardly a resident of Garnett, young or old, but will stop to dwell upon his character as a man and a citizen, and will render to him the tribute which such a life deserves. The older citizens, his neighbors and friends, who have stood shoulder to shoulder with him in the early struggles of Kansas, who have known his adversity and prosperity; who have come in contact with him as friend as well as citizen; these will all morn his loss as a personal one, and the tears which will bedew his last resting place will be wrung from hearts which loved him. In the afternoon of life he lays down the burden of earth, but the work which he has done will live in the minds of those with whom he labored and his memory will be cherished in honor and in love.
-contributed by DJ (#47771158)
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