a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Jeromesville,. Sept. 8, 1825. He was converted at the age of fifteen, and educated at Norwalk Seminary. In 1845 he received license to exhort, and in the following year entered the North Ohio Conference, in which he served zealously until his death, July 25,1860. Mr. Caples was gentle, obliging, and unassuming; as a preacher, grave, able, and eloquent. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1860, p. 322.