John H. Capstick

John Henry Capstick (September 2, 1856 – March 17, 1918) was an American Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey's 5th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1915 until his death in 1918.

John H. Capstick
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Jersey's 5th district
In office March 4, 1915 – March 17, 1918
Preceded by	William E. Tuttle Jr.
Succeeded by	William F. Birch
Personal details
Born	September 2, 1856 Lawrence, Massachusetts
Died	March 17, 1918 (aged 61) Montville, New Jersey
Political party	Republican
Spouse(s)	Ella F. Blake ​ (m. 1880)​
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Biography

Capstick was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts on September 2, 1856, where he attended the local public schools.[1] He moved with his parents to Providence, Rhode Island in 1868 and attended a business college.

He married Ella F. Blake on May 1, 1880.[1]

He was a member of the Rhode Island Militia in 1870 and 1871. Capstick moved to Montville, New Jersey in 1883, and engaged in the manufacture of textile fabrics the same year. In 1899, he was co-founder of the Morris County Traction Company which later built street railways in Morris County.[2] He was a member of the State sewerage commission from 1905 to 1908, and president of the State board of health from 1908 to 1914.

Capstick was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses and served from March 4, 1915, until his death in Montville, New Jersey on March 17, 1918.[3] He was interred in Greenwood Cemetery in Boonton, New Jersey.

See also

• List of United States Congress members who died in office (1900–49)

References

1. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. XVII. James T. White & Company. 1920. p. 38. Retrieved December 31, 2020 – via Google Books.
2. Larry Lowenthal & William T. Greenberg, Jr., Morris County Traction Company, 2005, page 3.
3. Staff. "John H. Capstick Dead. New Jersey Congressman Had Been Ill Since Last Fall.", The New York Times, March 18, 1918. Accessed February 23, 2011. "John H. Capstick, Republican, of the Fifth Congressional District of New Jersey, who had been ill of heart disease for several months, died at his home in Montville, N.J., yesterday."

External links

• United States Congress. "John H. Capstick (id: C000136)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
• John Henry Capstick at The Political Graveyard
• John H. Capstick at Find a Grave
• John H. Capstick, late a representative from New Jersey, Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives and Senate frontispiece 1920