Adin B. Capron
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Adin Ballou Capron (January 9, 1841 - March 17, 1911) was a U.S. Representative from Rhode Island.
Born in Mendon, Massachusetts, Capron attended the Woonsocket High School and Westbrook Seminary, near Portland, Maine. He settled in Stillwater, Rhode Island, and engaged in milling and dealing in grain. Enlisted as a sergeant in the Second Regiment, Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry, in May 1861. He was promoted to the rank of sergeant major July 11, 1861. Commissioned lieutenant in September 1861. He served in the Signal Corps until the close of the Civil War, having been commissioned first lieutenant on March 3, 1863, and subsequently promoted to the rank of captain and major by brevet. He served as member of the State house of representatives 1887-1892 and served as speaker in 1891 and 1892. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1892 to the Fifty-third Congress.
Capron was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fifth and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1911). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1910. He resumed his former business activities in Stillwater, Rhode Island, where he died March 17, 1911. He was interred in Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, Rhode Island.
