Caperton, Alexander Cotton, D.D., was born in Jackson Oo., Ala., Feb. 4, 1831.

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Caperton, Alexander Cotton, D.D., was born in Jackson Oo., Ala., Feb. 4, 1831. His early child- hood was spent on a farm in Mississippi, whither his parents had removed. He received the rudi- ments of an education in the common schools of his neighborhood, and afterwards taught school to pro- cure the means for entering Mississippi College, | where he graduated in 1856. He then went to Rochester, N. Y., and in 1858 graduated in the theological seminary at that place. He returned home and accepted a professorship in Mississippi College. During the civil war he engaged in farm- ing as a means of support for his family, but did not desist from preaching. At the close of the war he was chosen pastor of a church in Memphis, and was subsequently stationed at Mayfield, Ky., and Evansville, Ind. In 1871 he became co-editor, and soon after sole editor and proprietor of the Western Recorder, a leading Baptist weekly paper, pub- lished at Louisville, Ky. He is also editor ‘and proprietor of the American Baptist, a paper pub- lished at Louisville for the colored people, and has established a book and publishing house in Louis- ville. In addition to these labors, Dr. Caperton preached several hundred times a year, and is an active member of the missionary and Sunday-school boards of his denomination in Kentucky. From the Baptist Encyclopedia by William Cathcart- photos from findagrave