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- He was a professor in the Addison Evangelical Lutheran Teachers Seminary.
Georg Christoph Albert Kaeppel, teacher, organist, composer and professor, was born in Indianapolis, Indiana (d. 1934). He graduated from the Missouri Synod teachers seminary at Addison, Illinois, in 1881 and served as teacher in Wittenberg, Missouri (1881-1883), and at Trinity Lutheran Church (Saint Louis, 1883-1897). He became a professor at his alma mater in Addison and served there and in River Forest from 1897 until his retirement in 1933. He was editor of the Lutheran School Journal and was also a writer/composer of numerous musical offerings.
Listed in the on-line Christian Cyclopedia edited by Erwin Lueker, Concordia Publishing House.
http://www.lcms.org/cyclopedia/a/k.html#KAPPEL.GEORGCHRISTOPHALBERT
K?ppel, Georg Christoph Albert
(George Christopher Albert Kaeppel; April 19, 1862?January 11, 1934). B. Indianapolis, Indiana; educ. Ev. Luth. Teachers Sem. (Mo. Syn.), Addison, Illinois Parish school teacher Wittenberg, Missouri, 1881?83; St. Louis, Missouri, 1883?97. Prof. Addison, Illinois, 1897; River Forest, Illinois, 1913. Organist; composer. Works include contatas Unto Us, Agnus Dei, and Soil Deo Gloria; organ compositions; Die Orgel im Gottesdienst.
1910 census: ILL, Dupage, Addison Twp, series T624,Roll 285, pg 14
name of Institution: Addison Evangelical Lutheran Teachers Seminary
Kaeppel, Albert G.C., head, M, W, 48, m1, 26 yrs, IN, Germany, Germany, professor in the seminary
" , Dora, wife, F, W, 45, m1, 26 yrs, 11 children, 11 living, MO, MO, MO
" , Laura, dau, F, W, 24, single, MO, IN, MO
" , Maud, dau, F, W, 20, single, MO, IN, MO
" , Elmer, son, M, W, 16, single, MO, IN, MO
" , Alfons, son, M, W, 14, single, MO, IN, MO
" , Ruth, dau, F, W, 12, single, ILL, IN, MO
" , Herbert, son, M, W, 10, single, ILL, IN, MO
" , Kurth, son, M, W, 8, single, ILL, IN, MO
" , Raymond, son, M, W, 6, single, ILL, IN, MO
" , Albert, son, M, W, 3, single, ILL, IN, MO
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