Capen, Elmer Hewitt

CAPEN, ELMER HEWITT: Universalist; b. at Stoughton, Mass., Apr. 5, 1838; d. at Medford, Mass., Mar. 22, 1905. He was graduated at Tufts College, 1860; admitted to the bar, 1863; was pastor of the Independent (Universalist) Christian Society of Gloucester, Mass., 1865–69; of the First Universalist Church of Providence, R. I., 1870–75; and after 1875 president of Tufts College, Medford, Mass. He belonged to the school of Universalists who make the final triumph of good over evil a corollary of the nature of God—a result to be wrought out through those moral processes which are seen in operation around us. He was member of the legislature from Stoughton, 1859–60. His publications consisted of sermons, addresses, reports, etc.