Horace Capron

Horace Capron () 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.
Koeksi seni rupa dan artefak Jepang miliknya dijual kepada Smithsonian Institution usai kematiannya.

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

Laurel, Maryland