Robert Capstick Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire
From: Barbara Gottlock - BGOTTLOC@ccsd.edu

Surname: CAPSTICK
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915


Page 1276

     ROBERT CAPSTICK,* proprietor of a green house on Roger street,
Portsmouth, N. H., is a successful business man and has many friends and
acquaintances in the city. The progress he has made is the result of  hard
work and persistent effort, combined with careful management, and redounds
to his credit.
     Mr. Capstick was born in England, October 6, 1861, and is a son of  Wil-
liam and Sarah Jane (Lill) Capstick. The parents were natives of  England .
and always lived in that country. They were members of the Church of
England. Their children were: Sarah Jane, William, Margaret, Richard,
Elizabeth, Robert and Anne, wife of Thomas McTurk. Mr. Capstick was a
farmer, butcher and merchant at different periods, and was a substantial man.
     Robert Capstick attended the common schools only until he was ten years
old, when his career in business began. He worked at general farm work for
a period of eight years and then turned his hand to gardening. When he
reached the age of twenty-one, he emigrated to the United States, locating
first at Bay View, where he was employed in a green house for two years.
He then continued in that line at Boston for a time, after which he located
in Portsmouth, N. H. His first work here was as gardener for H. Fisher
Eldridge, with whom he remained two and a half years. Following this he
was for nine years manager for M. E. Hutchinson and Company. He next
bought his present place, which he has conducted with uninterrupted success.
He has one thousand square feet under glass and has four men employed. He
is engaged in the retail trade, finding a ready market for his products in
Portsmouth. .
     Mr. Capstick was married in 1898, to Mary A. Quinlan, who was born in
Portsmouth, a daughter of Luke Quinlan. After a heavy association of but
one year, Mr. Capstick was called upon to mourn the loss of his wife by
death. In religious attachment they were Catholic. He is a member of the
Foresters, Knights of Columbus, Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and
the Patrons of Husbandry.

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