The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-05-18
Death of A. c. Capron.

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was due to heart failure rseultin.
from kidney trouble and was a sur
prise and great shock to this com
munity.
About two months ago Judge Cap
ron returned from a winters sojourl
in California, and though he spoke o
his health i'll an encouraging manner
his frieEds noticed that his phycica
condition was not as robust as i
might have been. Mr.. Capron haC
an optomistic disposition and declar
ed the change of climate had don,
him good and upon his return here h,
| reopened his law office and again re
sumed the practice of the profession
to which he had for so many year:
given MS time and talents. Mr.. ant
Mrs. Capron had gone to their cot
tage at the lake and while there
sickness overlook him and after ar
illness of three days he succumbed
/ Mr.. Mcdonald and wife and L. G.
Capron and wife went to Culver as
soon as they heard of his death and
remained at the cottage over night.
The news of his demise spread rap
idly over town. 1t could scarcely be
realized that the form of Judge Cap
ron, familiar for half century on the
streets of Plymouth, had passed out
at the silent way called Death Only
few days ago he was about town
and i'll his office at work on some cas-
es that were to come before court
His name had been mentioned as
special Judge in the disbarment cases
of the three Laporte attorneys and he
had recently received a letter appriz,
ing him OF his probable appointment
in relation thereto.
Sunday a committee OF the bar
drove to Culver and accompanied the
remains to Plymouth They arrived
here at o'clock and the body was
taken to the home of his brother Lor-
ry Mrs. Capron accompanied them,
and though greatly afflicted by the
sudden grief, is able to be up.
Albertus c. Capron was born Octo-
Der 81, 1880, in Homer, CORTLAND
county, New York He came to Ply
mouth in 1853 and clerked in Pome-
roy and Houghton's dry goods store,
the latter member of the firm being
the father of the late three Houghton
brothers, Thomas, John and James.
He soon afr went into the Office OF
the late c. H. Reeve and studied law
and three years later became a mem
Der of the firm of Reeve & Capron."
Later he went into the law business
by himself and occupied for fifteen
or twenty years the room i'll the
Brownlee block now occupied by DR..
Deeds. In the latter part of the Cos
he took brother into partnership,
the firm name being "A c. & A. B.
Capron." In a few years his brother
went west. He was at one time town
clerk and member of the school
board, but his office and the papers
and records of the town and school
were destroyed in the great fire that
burned out Laporte street in 1861
In 1862 he married Miss Helen
Woodbury., daughter OF Mrs. Amanda
Woodbury.. former we'll known res
dent of Plymouth and mother OF
Charles Woodbury. There were two
children by this union, one dying in
infancy and the other, Mrs Ella B.
Simons, wife of Willard w. Simons,
now of Denver. There are two
andchildren-Oscar and 4Albertus-
with their parents at Denver, Color
ado.
In 1887 he was married to Miss Ell
ia J. Dill and two children were the
result of this union-one dying Ill in
fancy and John c., of Los Angeles.
A brother Dolph, of Denver, and Lor-
nv c.. and Louisa S. Capron, of thN.
city, survive him.
In 1890 Mr. Capron was elected
Judge of the Forty-first Judicial dis
trict, composed of Marshall and Full
ton counties, and in 1896 he was re-
elected, serving in all twelve years.
His successor is Judge Bernetlla, ell
ected in 1902.
In his law relations with his coli
leagues and in his administration on
the bench, Judge Capron was unive--
sally kind and he never sought to Of
fend. His decisions and rulings from
the bench were never harsh and in
his argumnts before the court and the
jury he sought to convince by argu-
ment rather than by adopting tactics
of coercion and subterfuge. For fol-
lowing this course he enjoyed the
confidence and respect OF the court
and secured the consideration to
which his pleas were entitled.
In point of intellectual qualities
Judge Capron was regarded by his
friends as the peer of any man that
has ever lived in Marshall county
He was not so versatile as others,
his course of thought not so varied
and general but on subjects upon
which he thought he was regarded as