Horace Capron [SEP] occupation
Horace Capron
Horace Capron (August 31, 1804 – February 22, 1885) was an American businessman and agriculturalist, a founder of Laurel, Maryland, a Union officer in the American Civil War, the United States Commissioner of Agriculture under U.S. Presidents Andrew Johnson and Ulysses S. Grant, and an advisor to Japan's Hokkaidō Development Commission.
His collection of Japanese art and artifacts was sold to the Smithsonian Institution after his death.
Early life.
Horace Capron was born in Attleboro, Massachusetts, the son
his widow Margaret sold the collection to the Smithsonian, where it became one of the foundations of the Smithsonian's Asian collection.
Notes.
- 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