Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Capps, Dr. Lewis E. January 28, 1864 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders, The Honolulu Star Bulletin, Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Editor George F. Nellist

DR. LEWIS E. CAPPS, Optometrist and Author. Dr. Lewis Edwin Capps, optometrist 
and optician, has attained literary distinction as a poet of Hawaii under the 
inspiration arising from a deep love of the land he has made his home.
  He is the author of “Song of Hawaii,” published in 1922 by the Paradise of 
the Pacific, and he will shortly have off the press another volume, “Old Koa 
Bowl.” At his new home, “Mauna Lani,” on Pacific Heights, he has a splendid 
library dealing with Hawaiian lore, and in his garden he has specialized upon 
the hibiscus, until he now has more than 300 varieties.
  Born in Mt. Pulaski, Ill., Jan. 28, 1864, the son of Charles R. and 
Elizabeth (Lushbaugh) Capps, Dr. Capps was educated in the public schools of 
Mt. Pulaski and was graduated from the Chicago Opthalmic College. He began his 
professional career in Peoria, Ill., in 1893, removed to Seattle in 1898 and 
established and was president and manager of the Seattle Optical Co. until 
1916.
  He then came to Honolulu as manager of the optical department of Wall & 
Dougherty, and in 1918, joining with Dr. R. A. Thompson, established the 
Thompson Optical Institute and became its president and manager. At the 
present time he is sole owner of this firm.
  Dr. Capps organized and was a member of the first state board of examiners 
in optometry for the state of Washington, is a member of the advisory board of 
the National Association of Optometrists and former president of the 
Territorial Board of Examiners in Optometry. He is vice-president and a 
director of the Hawaiian Fruit Packers, a pineapple corporation formed in 
1921, and is vice-president of the Honolulu Ad Club.
  Dr. Capps had seven years’ service as a lieutenant in the National Guard of 
Illinois. He is a Royal Arch Mason and Knight of Pythias. In 1890 he married 
Mary Phillips in Ohio. Their two children are Robert Waldron Capps of 
Brooklyn, N.Y., and Mrs. Leighton Hind of Kamuela, Hawaii. In 1919 Dr. Capps 
married Dorothy Rogers of Syracuse, N.Y. They have one daughter, Dorothy 
Eloise Capps.


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