Porter, Horace, 1837-1921

American general and ambassador.

From the description of Autograph letter signed : [New York], to M. Olmstead, Secretary of the Jeweler's Association, 1886 Nov. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270618680

American army officer and railroad official.

From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to William W. Belknap, 1874 Aug. 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270618676

Son of Pennsylvania Governor and graduate of West Point, he was an aide de camp to General Grant during Civil War and remained in the Army as an aide to Grant and General Sherman until resigning in 1873.

From the description of Letter, Aug. 21, 1872. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 53882403

Civil War Union General and aide de camp to General Grant; Vice President of the Pullman Company; Amassador to France, 1897-1905; representative to Hague Peace Conference; author of "Campaigning with Grant."

From the description of Letters of Horace Porter to S.S. McClure and two magaizne portraits, 1888-1896. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 70180808

U.S. Army officer, railroad official, and diplomat.

From the description of Horace Porter papers, 1853-1922. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981195

Horace Porter was born in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania on April 15, 1837. He was the son of David Rittenhouse Porter, a former governor of Pennsylvania, and Josephine McDermett Porter.

He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy (West Point) in 1860, and served on the staff of General Ulysses S. Grant during the Civil War. He received the Congressional Medal of Honor for his valor at Chickamauga, and was breveted twice. After the war, he worked for several railroads, and was made ambassador to France in 1897. In 1905, towards the end of his ambassadorship, he oversaw the disinterment of John Paul Jones' body from its grave in Paris, and its reinterment at the U.S. Naval Academy. Porter died in New York City on May 29, 1921.

From the description of Papers, 1923. (Johns Hopkins University). WorldCat record id: 123749013