Horace Capron
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Horace Capron (approx. 1861–1865)
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| Born |
August 31, 1804 Attleboro, Massachusetts |
| Died | February 22, 1885 (aged 80) Washington, D.C. |
| Buried at | Oak Hill Cemetery, Georgetown, Washington, D.C. |
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| Years of service | 1862–1865 |
| Rank |
 Brevet Brigadier General (after leaving active service) |
| Commands held |
 14th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Cavalry
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| Awards | Order of the Rising Sun |
| Other work | U.S. Commissioner of Agriculture; advisor to Japan |
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.
Horace Capron was born in Attleboro, Massachusetts, the son of Seth Capron and his wife Eunice Mann Capron. His sister was Louisa Thiers (1814–1926), who in 1925 became the first verified person to reach age 111. His father, a doctor of medicine, opened woollen mills in New York State including Whitesboro, and from this experience Horace went on to supervise several cotton mills including Savage Mill in Savage, Maryland. He was also an officer in the Maryland Militia in the 1830s. In November 1834, Capron and others gathered suspects and potential witnesses of two recent Laurel railroad murders and brought them to Merrill's tavern. Some 300 railroad workers were questioned at the Baltimore county jail.
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