Louis L. Dapron, Justice of the Peace of Springfield, is a descendant of the early French who lived for generations about Cahokia and were connected with the early history of the State. Some valuable claims are believed to belong to the family, but through lack of ability to trace genealogy they have been thus far foiled in maintaining them.

Our subject was born in St. Clair County, Ill., September 8, 1832. He is a son of Nicholas and Mary (Dashney) Dapron, who were of French antecedents and were among the early settlers in the vicinity of Cahokia, which was one of the oldest settlements in Illinois. Nicholas Dapron was a farmer, but for several years mined in the lead mines of Potosi, Grant County, Wis., where his son Louis was reared, the family having moved to Potosi when he was three years of age. After a stay of eighteen years in that locality the parents of our subject returned to St. Clair County, and subsequently to St. Louis, from whence they went to St. Charles County, Mo.

Our subject was married in that State to Elizabeth Pierce, a native of Missouri, their wedding taking place July 9, 1857. He resided in St. Louis eleven years and while there studied medicine and was graduated from McDowell College in the class of 1858. He practiced medicine in that city five and one-half years and then removed to Central Station, St. Clair County, Ill., where he remained until he came to Springfield in 1868. He did not establish himself in his profession here, but followed painting and carpentering, continuing thus occupied nearly twenty years. He was elected to his present office of Justice of the Peace in the month of May, 1889, and is discharging its duties intelligently, impartially and to the perfect satisfaction of all concerned. Mr. and Mrs. Dapron have been blessed in their wedded life by two children---Mary Agnes and Louis Isidor, both of whom are living in Springfield, where Louis is engaged as a tailor. Our subject's parents lived to a ripe old age and at length laid down the burden of life full of years, his father dying in 1859 and his mother in 1867.

Mr. Dapron is recognized as a thorough going man and a good citizen who has the interests of his community at heart. In all the relations of life that he has sustained toward others he has shown himself to be guided by sterling principles. In his religious faith he is a true Catholic and politically has always stood staunchly by the Democratic party.