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Horace Porter

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Horace Porter 1837-1921, American soldier and diplomat, b. Huntingdon, Pa. In the Civil War he saw varied service, mostly as an ordnance officer, before becoming (1864) aide-de-camp to Gen. U. S. Grant. After the war, Porter was briefly Assistant Secretary of War when Grant was Secretary of War. During Grant's presidency Porter served as one of his executive secretaries until 1872. He was ambassador to France (1897-1905), where, at his own personal expense, he recovered the body of John Paul Jones for reburial in the United States. As delegate to the Hague Conference of 1907, he amended the Drago... Read more

Horace Pippin
1888-1946, American primitive painter, b. West Chester, Pa. He worked as a porter, peddler, and warehouseman and never studied art. He was severely wounded in World War I. The naive fervor and bold design of his... Read more

Auguste Rodin
...was born in Paris on Nov. 12, 1840. He studied drawing under Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudran and modeling under the sculptor Jean Baptiste...completed his Man with a Broken Nose, a bust of an old street porter, which the Salon rejected. That year he entered the studio of... Read more

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	Gen. Horace Porter: `A public spirited servant'.(Saturday)(The Civil War) ; ...winner of the Medal of Honor. Gen. Horace Porter was every one of these. Yet little is written of the man. Porter may be remembered among naval followers...crypt of the Naval Academy chapel. Or Porter might be remembered as an aide to... Read more
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	Coming across several mementos of Horace.(Saturday)(The Civil War) ; I knew very little of Gen. Horace Porter until several years ago, when...contacted second or third cousin Horace Porter and, after Horace came to Grant...research shows no firm evidence that Horace Porter had anything to do with prisoner... Read more
	FIRE GUTS HORACE WINTER RESIDENCE ; ...inspect the damage at the house at 68 S. Porter County Road 675W. (Color) (LARRY A. BRETTS...shortly before 9 a.m. Tuesday at the Horace Winter residence, 68 S. Porter County Road 675W. Lake Eliza Fire Chief...Schwartz was treated by medics from Porter Memorial Hospital at the fire scene... Read more
	Horace Small to grow after tie-up with Redbus ; SHARES in Horace Small are expected to soar tomorrow when...Internet millionaire Cliff Stanford and John Porter, son of former Westminster Council leader...Stanford's stake will be worth 43 million and Porter's 32.5 million. They each put up 2 million... Read more
	HORACE WALLIN PRACTICED GOLF, LIFE AT OWN PACE ; PHOTO Horace Wallin THIS ELECTRONIC VERSION MAY DIFFER...brothers never minded. At 95, their dad, Horace, had the right perspective on the humbling...elder Wallin died Thursday evening at Porter Memorial Hospital in Valparaiso - 68...11 a.m. at Augsburg Lutheran Church in Porter. THIS ELECTRONIC ... Read more
	Shares in tiny Horace Small soar 343% on internet switch ; SHARES in Horace Small Apparel, the tiny clothing company turned internet...that it was in talks concerning a possible acquisition. Horace said on Thursday that it would buy Redbus Interhouse, an...to be renamed Redbus Interhouse, will be chaired by John Porter, who co-founded Demon Internet, one of the ... Read more
	Christmas morning, breakfast, Horace Pippin.(Looking & Learning) ; About the Artist Horace Pippin was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania in 1888. Shortly after...support his family. Pippin's other early jobs included working as a hotel porter, a mover at a storage company, and an ironworker. Pippin enlisted in... Read more
	An American Master, Horace Pippin, Gets A Fitting Tribute ; `I Tell My Heart: The Art of Horace Pippin' Opening Saturday and running through July 30 Art...30 p.m.; Saturdays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Phone: (312) 443-3600 Horace Pippin (1888-1946) was an unlikely candidate for art world...the title of the retrospective "I Tell My Heart: The Art of Horace Pippin," opening ... Read more
	Obituary: Leo McKern Actor best known as Horace Rumpole ; BEFORE HE erupted as Horace Rumpole, the ageing, grumpy, hen- pecked and endearingly down- at-heel...sell their gas fire for food. He went to work at Sainsbury's as a meat porter. But Tyrone Guthrie at the Old Vic spotted him as likely comic material... Read more

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