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{{short description|American politician}}
<!-- This article was automatically created by [[User:polbot]] from http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000135. The prose may be stilted, and there may be grammatical and Wikification errors. Please improve in any way you see fit. -->'''Adin Ballou Capron''' ([[January 9]], [[1841]] - [[March 17]], [[1911]]) was a [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Representative]] from [[Rhode Island]].
 
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| name = Adin B. Capron
| image = Adin B. Capron.jpg
| state = [[Rhode Island]]
| district = [[Rhode Island's 2nd congressional district|2nd]]
| term_start = March 4, 1897
| term_end = March 3, 1911
| preceded = [[Warren O. Arnold]]
| succeeded = [[George H. Utter]]
| office2 = Member of the [[Rhode Island House of Representatives]]
| term_start2 = 1887
| term_end2 = 1892
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1841|01|09}}
| birth_place = {{nowrap|[[Mendon, Massachusetts|Mendon]], [[Massachusetts]]}}, United States
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1911|03|17|1841|01|09|mf=yes}}
| death_place = {{nowrap|[[Smithfield, Rhode Island|Stillwater]],<br>[[Providence County, Rhode Island|Providence County]],<br>[[Rhode Island]], U.S.}}
| resting_place = [[Swan Point Cemetery]]<br>[[Providence, Rhode Island]]
| parents = Carlile Willis Capron<br>Abigail (Bates) Capron
| spouse = Irene Ballou<br>Phebe Almira Mowry
| children = Helen Mowry Capron<br>John Mowry Capon<br>Adin Mowry Capon<br>Almira Mowry Capron
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| party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
| alma_mater = [[Westbrook Seminary]]
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'''Adin Ballou Capron''' (January 9, 1841&nbsp;– March 17, 1911) was an American miller and politician from the [[U.S. state]] of [[Rhode Island]]. He served in the [[American Civil War]] and was a member of the [[United States House of Representatives]].
 
==Early life and military career==
Born in [[Mendon, Massachusetts]],<ref>{{cite Capronbook|last=Mendon attended(Mass.)|title=Vital Records of Mendon, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850|date=1920|publisher=Wright & Potter printing Company|page=[https://archive.org/details/vitalrecordsmen00baldgoog/page/n44 40]|url=https://archive.org/details/vitalrecordsmen00baldgoog }}</ref> Capron attended Woonsocket High School and [[Westbrook Seminary]], near [[Portland, Maine]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Neale|first=Walter|title=Autobiographies and portraits of the President, cabinet, Supreme court, and Fifty-fifth Congress, Volume 1|date=1899|publisher=The Neale company|page=1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1WgfAQAAMAAJ&pg=PT380 }}</ref> He settled in [[Smithfield, Rhode Island|Stillwater, Rhode Island]], and engaged in milling and dealing in grain. He enlisted as a [[sergeant]] in the Second[[2nd Rhode Island Regiment,]] of the [[2nd Rhode Island Infantry|Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry,]] in May 1861. He was promoted to the rank of [[Sergeant Major#United States|Sergeantsergeant Majormajor]] [[on July 11]], [[1861]], and commissioned [[lieutenant]] in September 1861.<ref>{{cite web|url= He servedhttp://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=tcwlmo&id=I65513 in the Signal|title=The CorpsWright untilFamily the close of the [[American Civil WarGenealogy|Civilpublisher War]],= having been commissioned [[first lieutenant#United StatesAncestry.com|firstaccess-date= lieutenant]] on [[March 3]]27, [[1863]], and subsequently promoted to the rank of [[Captain (United States)|captain]] and[[Major (United States)|major]] by [[Brevet (military)|brevet]].2014}}</ref>
 
He served in the Signal Corps until the close of the [[American Civil War|Civil War]], having been commissioned [[first lieutenant#United States|first lieutenant]] on March 3, 1863, and subsequently promoted to the rank of [[Captain (United States)|captain]] and [[Major (United States)|major]] by [[Brevet (military)|brevet]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Herringshaw|first=Thomas William|title=Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States; Illustrated with Three Thousand Vignette Portraits|date=1909|publisher=American Publishers' Association|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_urzTAAAAMAAJ/page/n536 552]|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_urzTAAAAMAAJ }}</ref>
 
==Political career==
HeFrom 1887 to 1892, Capron served as member of the [[Rhode Island House of Representatives]] 1887-1892, and served aswas speaker of the State House in 1891 and 1892.<ref>{{cite book|last=United States. Government Printing Office|title=Congressional serial set|date=1918|publisher=U.S. G.P.O.|page=530|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aMlTAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA530 }}</ref> He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1892 to the [[53rd United States Congress|Fifty-third Congress]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Neale|first=Walter|title=Autobiographies and portraits of the President, cabinet, Supreme court, and Fifty-fifth Congress, Volume 1|date=1899|publisher=The Neale company|page=1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1WgfAQAAMAAJ&pg=PT380 }}</ref>
 
Capron was elected as a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] candidate to the [[55th United States Congress|Fifty-fifth]] and to the six succeeding Congresses, serving in Congress from ([[March 4]], [[1897]]-[[, to March 3]], [[1911]]).<ref>{{cite book|last=Herringshaw|first=Thomas HeWilliam|title=Herringshaw's wasNational notLibrary aof candidateAmerican forBiography: renominationContains inThirty-five 1910.Thousand Biographies Heof resumedthe hisAcknowledged formerLeaders businessof activitiesLife inand [[Stillwater,Thought Rhodeof Island]],the whereUnited heStates; diedIllustrated [[Marchwith Three 17]],Thousand Vignette Portraits|date=1909|publisher=American Publishers' Association|page=[[1911]https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_urzTAAAAMAAJ/page/n536 552]|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_urzTAAAAMAAJ }}</ref> He was interrednot ina [[Swancandidate Pointfor Cemetery]],renomination [[Providence,in Rhode Island]]1910.
 
After leaving Congress, he resumed his former business activities in Stillwater, where he died March 17, 1911. He was interred in [[Swan Point Cemetery]] in [[Providence, Rhode Island]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Spencer|first=Thomas E.|title=Where They're Buried: A Directory Containing More Than Twenty Thousand Names of Notable Persons Buried in American Cemeteries, with Listings of Many Prominent People who Were Cremated|date=1998|publisher=Genealogical Publishing Com|page=296|isbn=9780806348230|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eLWao2lIGTEC&pg=PA296 }}</ref>
==Reference==
 
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==Family life==
Capron was the son of Carlile Willis Capron and Abigail (Bates) Capron.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=tcwlmo&id=I65513 |title=The Wright Family Genealogy|publisher = Ancestry.com|access-date= March 27, 2014}}</ref> He married Irene Ballou in August 1868 and she died ten months later.<ref>{{cite book|last=Ballou|first=Adin|title=An Elaborate History and Genealogy of the Ballous in America|date=1888|publisher=Press of E. L. Freeman & son|page=[https://archive.org/details/anelaboratehist00ballgoog/page/n1173 1088]|url=https://archive.org/details/anelaboratehist00ballgoog }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Bayles|first=Richard Mather|title=History of Providence County, Rhode Island, Volume 2|date=1891|publisher=W. W. Preston|page=221|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nM84AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA221 }}</ref> Following her death, Capron married Phebe Almira Mowry in April 1874. Capron and Phebe had four children: Helen Mowry Capron, John Mowry Capon, Adin Mowry Capon and Almira Mowry Capron.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.civilwarsignals.org/brown/signalmen/320/adinbcapron.pdf|title= Adin B. Capron|publisher = Civil War Signals|access-date= March 27, 2014}}</ref>
 
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