. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . en was born April5, 1838, in Stough-ton, Norfolk County,Mass. He was theson of Samuel (2d)and .Mmira (Paul)Capen. After a pre-paratory course ofstudy at the PierceAcademy, Midd 1 e-boro, Mass., and atthe Green MountainLiberal Institute,Woodstock, Vt., heentered Tufts Col-lege in 185 6 andgraduated in his senior year atcollege, he waselected to representSt ought on in thelower House of theMassachusetts Legis-lature, where he wasthe youngest memberof
. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . en was born April5, 1838, in Stough-ton, Norfolk County,Mass. He was theson of Samuel (2d)and .Mmira (Paul)Capen. After a pre-paratory course ofstudy at the PierceAcademy, Midd 1 e-boro, Mass., and atthe Green MountainLiberal Institute,Woodstock, Vt., heentered Tufts Col-lege in 185 6 andgraduated in his senior year atcollege, he waselected to representSt ought on in thelower House of theMassachusetts Legis-lature, where he wasthe youngest memberof that body. A yearat the Harvard Law-School followed his graduation from iufts, and after completing his legalstudies in the ofifice of Thomas S. Harlow in Boston, hewas admitted to the bar in 1863. Mr. Capen immedi-ately began the practice of law. The natural bent ofhis mind, however, was rather toward theology, and hebecame interested in religious activities. After a years))ractice at the bar, he law for di\ init\ andtook a course in theology under Rev. Dr. to the ministry, Oct. 5, 1865, he was called to. the (jastorate of the Independent Christian Church atCdoucester, Mass., which was founded in 1774 by Murray. Mr. Capen remained with the Ciloucesterchurch four years, and then accepted a call to a Univer-salist Society at St. Paul, Minn., where he stayed oneyear. In 1870, he became pastor of the First Universal-ist Church at Providence, R. I. From this pastorate hewas called, in 1875, to the presidency of Tufts College,and was inaugurated June 2d of that year. His manage-ment of the collegehas been signallysuccessful in variousdirections. Endow-ments and buildingshave been added, andtlie number of stu-dents has constantlyincreased. Since1876, PresidentCapen has been atrustee of the Llni-versalist (1 e n e r a 1Convention. He re-ceived the honoraryilegree of doctor ofdivinity from the Universityof New York in 1886 he
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