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Hiram Capron
Hiram Capron (February 12, 1796〔Smith 25〕 – September 10, 1872〔Smith 36〕) was the founder of the town of Paris in Ontario, Canada, which was incorporated in 1849.〔Smith 55〕 An immigrant from the United States, he purchased large plots of land by the Grand River and Nith River which he settled and developed.
== Early life ==
Capron was born and raised in the town of Leicester, Vermont in 1796 to a family of farmers.〔Warner 466〕 Upon reaching adulthood, he briefly worked at an instructor at a ladies' academy〔Warner 437〕 before moving to New York to work for an iron-founder named Theophilus Short.〔Smith 27〕 Short owned a number of iron blast furnaces in the area of Shortsville, and he employed Capron as a bookkeeper. Some time later, about 1821, Capron began investigating establishing his own blast furnace and, with a few business associates, he purchased a plot of land in Norfolk County by Lake Erie and erected a new blast furnace in 1822. By 1823 the furnace was operational and Capron was traveling the province selling ironware. At this time he revoked his American citizenship in order to swear an oath to the crown of England.〔Smith 32〕
In 1823, Capron passed through the area then known as The Forks of the Grand River where he met a man named William Holme.〔Johnston 34〕 At this time, most of the land which now makes up Paris belonged to Holme; the region was mostly undeveloped, but included a small plaster mill which likely indicated to Capron the area's economic value.〔Smith 10〕 While the two men conducted no business on this occasion, Capron was eventually able to buy the land from Holme and in 1829 prepared to move to his new home.〔Johnston 34〕
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