Bureau County IL Archives Biographies.....Capperrune, Thomas R.
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Biography of Thomas R CAPPERRUNE, Bureau County, Illinois

Thomas R. Capperrune, Milo, was born August 11, 1816, in Kent County, Del.  
His parents, William and Rebecca (Row) Capperrune, were natives of Delaware.  
The former was a farmer by occupation, and died there in 1839.  The latter 
died there also in 1817.  She was the mother of seven children; of these 
only three are yet living.  The grandfather of our subject ws of Irish 
descent, and a teacher by profession.  Our subject is principally self 
educated.  He immigrated to Ohio in October 1835, and in 1841 removed to 
Knox County, Ill.  In 1850 he came to Milo Township, Bureau County, where 
he bought eighty acres of land for $300.  At present he has 160 acres of 
prairie and twenty acres of timberland.  He was married in Knox to the widow 
of Anderson Corbin, Mrs. Caroline Corbin (nee Caroline McGinnis), a daughter 
of Johnston and Jane (McMullen) McGinnis.  Mrs. Caroline Capperrune was born
July 2, 1810, in Chester County, Penn.  She is the mother of the following 
children: Mrs. Emily Snow (nee Emily Corbin); B. Frank Corbin; Mrs. Sarah 
Cammeol (nee Capperrune), who is now a resident of Kansas; Irwin Capperrune; 
Mrs. Mary J. Hunt, and Thomas J. Capperrune.  Religiously Mr. and Mrs. 
Capperrune are connected with and are active members of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church.  Politically he is now a Republican, and was formerly an 
Abolitionist.  He has filled the offices of Commissioner, Collector and 
Assessor; the latter for a number of years.

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