Avoyelles-Rapides County Louisiana Archives Biographies.....Cappel, Jack T April 10, 1891 - 

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Author: Henry E Chambers

Jack T. Cappel, M. D.  The family name of Cappel is a very familiar one in 
professional life at Alexandria and represents a high type of American 
citizenship.  One who worthily bears this name is Mr. Jack T. Cappel, physician 
and surgeon, who has been established in medical practice here since his return 
from two years of honorable military service in France during the World war.

Jack T. Cappel was born April 10, 1891, in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, son of 
Samuel C. and Martha (Thompson) Cappel, the former of whom was born in 
Avoyelles Parish and the latter in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, and both are 
deceased.  Of their family of fourteen children, twelve are living and four are 
valued and esteemed residents of Alexandria.  The father was a merchant in 
early business life, but for many years afterward was engaged in the 
contracting business.

After completing his public school course in his native parish, Dr. Cappel 
entered Tulane University and was graduated from the medical department of that 
institution in 1915.  He received the Stars and Bars scholarship, which is a 
Tulane University honorary fraternity, also the national scholarship of Alpha 
Omega Alpha.  During the next two years he served as an interne in the Charity 
Hospital, New Orleans.  When the United States became involved in the World 
war, he was one of five Sons of the Cappel family to enlist for military 
service, his entrance being on July 31, 1917.  He was trained in the Washington 
Army School of Medicine, and after accompanying the Second Division, United 
States Army, abroad, in the French Academy of Medicine, Paris.  He was first 
commissioned a lieutenant, but through acts of unusual courage in the face of 
danger, won promotion first to a captaincy and then major, March 20, 1919.  Dr. 
Cappel was presented with the Cross de Guerre in recognition of his valor, and 
also with three American citations.  He has retained the rank of major in the 
United States Reserve Corps.

Upon his return to the United States with his military honors, Dr. Cappel found 
himself also more experienced in medicine and surgery than many years of 
ordinary practice, in peaceful times, would have afforded.  He established 
himself at Alexandria in 1919 as a general practitioner, and in 1920 was 
graduated from the Chicago Laboratory of Surgical Technique.  He has built up a 
substantial practice, and commands the confidence of his brother practitioners 
throughout the parish as well as the public in general.

Dr. Cappel was married January 5, 1921, to Miss Alma Cortrecht, who was born in 
Illinois, and they have one daughter, Martha.  They are members of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church.  Dr. Cappel is a thirty-second degree Mason and a 
Shriner.  He belongs to a number of representative scientific bodies, including 
the Rapides Medical Society, the Louisiana State Medical Society, and the 
American Medical Association.

Additional Comments:
NOTE:  The referenced source contains a black and white photograph of the 
subject with his/her autograph.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 213-214, by Henry E. Chambers.  Published 
by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925. 


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