Horace Capron
4 Desember 1867 – 31 Juli 1871
Ulysses S. Grant
Pendahulu
Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton
Pengganti
Frederick Watts
Frederick Watts
Attleboro, Massachusetts
Washington, D.C.
- Union
- Union Army
- Pertempuran Chancellorsville
- Order of the Rising Sun, 2nd class (en)
Horace Capron (31 Agustus 1804 – 22 Februari 1885) adalah seorang pengusaha dan agrikulturalis Amerika Serikat, pendiri Laurel, Maryland, perwira Union dalam Perang Saudara Amerika, Menteri Pertanian Amerika Serikat di bawah kepemimpinan Presiden AS Andrew Johnson dan Ulysses S. Grant, dan penasehat Kementerian Pembangunan Hokkaidō Jepang.[1] Koeksi seni rupa dan artefak Jepang miliknya dijual kepada Smithsonian Institution usai kematiannya.[2]
Catatan
- Horace Capron, Memoirs of Horace Capron 2 vols., typed copy, National Agricultural Library, U.S. Department of Agriculture
- Horace Capron. Reports and Official Letters by Horace Capron, Commissioner and Advisor and His Foreign Assistants (Tokyo: 1875)
- Merrit Starr. General Horace Capron, 1804–1884 Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 18 (July 1925): 259–349.
- Fujita Fumiko. American Pioneers and the Japanese Frontier: American Experts in Nineteenth-Century Japan Greenwood Press (1994)
- Harold S. Russell, "Time to Become Barbarian: The Extraordinary Life of General Horace Capron", Univ. Press of America (2007).
Referensi
- Laurel Historical Society
Pranala luar
- Detailed external biography
- Memoirs of Horace Capron; Autobiography
- Memoirs of Horace Capron; Expedition to Japan, 1871–1875