The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1901-12-26
TRIBUTE TO CAPRON.
Col. Dennis Hynes, of Chicago, Pays
a Touching Tribute to the Mem
DRY OF Col. Albert CaprOn.
A RENOWNED KENOSHA SOLDIER
One of the Men Who Have Made Ksnosha
Famous in History of American wars
is Eu1og1zed Before Ksnosha Club.
A RENOWNED KENOSHA SOLDIER
(From Thursdays Daily.)

HYneS delivered the Following aOdreSS
to the club:
Mr.. President, Ladies and Gentlemen:
By the partially of our worthy pres
ident come to give expression to the
tribute of his Kenosha club associates
to the life and worth of our late COM
rade, Colonel Albert Banfield Capron,
who departed this life, in his Goth year,
at his homeDin Winnetka, Illinois, sur
rounded by his wife and children, who
looked up to him with love and affec-
ton closely akin to alteration. In &C
cepting this detail, I am not 'unnindfu1
of the responsibility assume, nor will
I attempt to make apology for any
shortcomings in this task of sorr owful
affection, but will only express the
earnest wish that it had fallen to the
lot of SOMEONE much better equipped
to give the grand subject more COM
p1ete measure of justice.
Colonel 'Capron was born at Laurel,
Prince Georges county, Maryland,
June 18th, 1841. His father was Gen
era1 Horace.Capron, who went to Mary
land when young man, and erected
the Laurel Cotton Mills. His mother
was Louise Snowden, daughter of
General aSnowden, whose grandfather
received az patent from the King for
%, 900 acres of hand in Maryland, the
estate joining that of Charles Carroll,
of Carro1lton.E She died in 184o, 1eav-
ing five chi1dren-Ada1ine, Horace,
Jr., Albert Banfe1d, Elizabeth Snow
den and Osmond Tiffany. The oldest
child, Nicholas Snowden, died in in
fancy.
The genea1ogy of the family points
to Banfe1d Capron as the progenitor of
those bearing the name in America.
He was born in England, but was of
acknowledgement descent and came to
this country at the close of the 18th
century, settling in Att1eboro, Mass,
where he became the possessor of large
estates. He was the father of twelve
children. His eldest son, DR.. Seth
Capron, was the grandfather of Colonel
Albert B. Capron, and served in the
war of the Revolution, first in General
LaFayette's corps of light infantry in
| 1881. In 1882 he was transferred and
served until the close of the war as n
aide-de-camp on the staff of General
| Washington. DR.. Seth Capron had
six children. General Horace Capron,
father of Col Albert B. Capron was
the fourth.son. He was born August
31st, 1904, in Att1eboro, Mass, and
died at the National Capitol on Wash
ington's birthday, 1885. His death
was caused by exposure at the dedica-
ton of Washington monument the
day before, 'on which occasion he and
the orator Of the day, Hon, Robert G.
Winthrop, were among the few sur
vivors0of those who oficiated at the
laying of the corner stone forty years
before, when he was the officer in COM
mand of the cavalry which took part
in the ceremony.
General Capron was connected with
the army"many years before the out
break of the civil war. For seven
years he was stationed in Texas, hav-
ing charge of the Indians under the
war department. tsz1ssAfter the removal
of these, wards of the nation to the In
dian territory he came TO his farm in
Alden, aMcHenry county, Illinois, to
which few years previously he had
moved his family and valuable stock
from Maryland. He married Miss
Margaret 'sBaker, of New York City,
and settled down on his beautiful
1000 acre sfarm, to the agricultural
pursuits ofawhich he was so fond.
In 1861, ,on the breaking out of the
civil war, his two eldest sous quickly
enlisted. Horace 'Capron, Jr., became
sergeant IinRCompany c, 9th III. cav
airy, (whichlcompany had the honor
to command). His services were SO
conspicuous1Y gallant and courageous
that he was the first one chosen in the
regiment to receive the medal of honor
voted bys Congress for conspicuous
bravery in the feld-the medals being
| limited to two for each regiment.
Albert B. Capron Immediately joined
the 33rd Illinois infantry and was soon
stationed at Benton Barracks, Mo. He
served withSGen. Lyon at the taking of
Camp Jackson, which saved Missouri
to the Union, and under Gen. Siegel's
command participated in the fam
Gus andshard fought battle of Wilson's
creek, Aug. s, 9 and 10, 1861, being
continuously under fire during the
three days.
| In 1862 Gen. Horace Capron was re-
quested by Governor Yates to drill and
prepare cavalry troops for the field.
/ He, therefore, raised and drilled three
cavalry regiments and went out him
self in charge of the last one-the 14th
Illinois cavalry. He was soon pro-
noted to0briga enlargement and COM
manded asbrigade. Col. Albert Capron
now asked a transfer to his fathers
regiment, as did also his brother, Hor-
ace, and soon after his youngest
brother, Osmond, joined it, and thus
father and three sons we're united in
the same organization in one grand
effort to protect their country's honor
The brother, Captain Horace Capron,
was killed in an engagement with the