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Catalog Number
2019.14.11
Date of Origin
ca. 1912
Description
Postcard sent to Edith Cappon at 288 West 9th Street in Holland, MI. ca.1912.  Sent to her by Aunt Bessie.  On the front is a drawing of holly and icicles beside the words "A Joyful Christmas".







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History
;Edith Cappon was born in Holland, MI in 1896 to Isaac and Jacoba Cappon. Edith was raised in Holland. She was married July 8, 1922 in Holland, MI to Edwin McLean.

Isaac Cappon was born in Zeeland, the Netherlands on 1-13-1830 to Johannes Cappon and Magdalena Kallewaard. By 1847 Cappon had settled in Rochester, NY. He would move to Holland, MI soon after.

Cappon and business partner John Bertsch opened the Cappon and Bertsch Leather Company in Holland. It would grow to become the largest tannery operation in Michigan by the 1880s. Business was not the only area where Cappon proved successful. He was elected Holland's first mayor in 1867.

Isaac Cappon married Catarina De Boe (1835-1887). They would have 11 children together: Magdalena Cornelia Cappon Debruyn (1855-1932);
Cornelia M. Cappon (1856-1858); Elizabeth Marie Cappon (1858-1909); Johannes Jakob Cappon (1862-1931); Jacobus Marinus Cappon (1862-1862); Cornelia Cappon Brusse (1865-1936); Jacomina Cappon Kremers (1867-1939); Sarah Cappon (1870-1891); Isaac Cappon, Jr. (1872-1911); Sue Cappon Houtkamp (1874-1938); and, Abraham Lincoln Cappon (1877-1934).

In 1874, Cappon and his family moved into their new home at 228 West Ninth Street.

On October 26, 1891, Isaac Cappon married Jacoba De Kok when she was 23, Jacoba and Isaac Cappon had five children together:
Ida Elizabeth Cappon Maulbetsch (1892-1992); Johanna Lavina Cappon (1894-1978); Sarah Edith Cappon McLean (1896-1975); Christene Helena Cappon DeVries (1898-1976); and, Franklin C Cappon (1900-1961).

Issac Cappon died on January 23, 1902.
Gift of
De Haan, Janis