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	Horace Porter - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		HORACE PORTER (1837-), American diplomatist and soldier, was born in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, on the 15th of April 1837; son of David Rittenhouse Porter (1788-1867), governor of Pennsylvania in 1839-1845, and grandson of Andrew Porter (1743-1813), an officer in the Continental Army during the War of Independence, and surveyor-general of Pennsylvania from 1809 until his death.
		Horace Porter studied for a year (1854) at the Lawrence scientific school of Harvard University, and then entered the United States Military Academy, where he graduated in 1860, third in his class.
		General Porter became well-known as a public speaker, and delivered orations at the dedication of General Grant's tomb in New York, at the centennial of the founding of West Point, and at the re-interment of the body of John Paul Jones at Annapolis.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Horace_Porter (349 words)

	Pullmans Palace Car Company
		Horace Porter was born April 15, 1837 in Huntington, Pennsylvania, the son of David Rittenhouse Porter (1788-1867), a two time governor of the State of Pennsylvania.
		Horace Porter served as a Captain in the Union Army, and as an aide-de-camp to General Ulysses S. Grant during the U.S. Civil War (1864-65).
		Porter's military career led him to the rank of General, and he was awarded the Medal of Honor in the name of the President of the United States of America on July 8, 1902.
	cprr.org /Museum/Ephemera/Pullman_Palace_Car_Co.html (3267 words)

	BookCloseouts.com - The Bestseller in Bargain Books
		After a brief stint in Washington, Porter rejoined Grant, who was now in command of all Union forces, and served with him as a staff aide until the end of the war.
		Porter was at Appomattox as a brevet brigadier general, and this work, written from notes taken in the field, is his eyewitness account of the great struggle between Lee and Grant that led to the defeat of the Confederacy.
		As a close-up observer of Grant in the field, Porter was also able to draw a finely detailed, fully realized portrait of this American military hero - his daily acts, his personal traits and habits, and the motives that inspired him in important crises - rendered in the language that Grant used at the time.
	www.bookcloseouts.com /default.asp?N=-222143 (201 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for porter
		Porter's witty, sophisticated lyrics and his affecting melodies place him high in the ranks of American composers of popular music.
		At the outbreak of the Civil War, Porter was made a brigadier general of volunteers.
		Porter, George, Baron Porter of Luddenham 1920-2002, British chemist, b.
	www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=porter (500 words)

	KKW.org \| Kennebunk, Kennebunkport & Wells Water District
		The Porter House is built in the Greek Revival style and is similar in design to the Capt. Nathaniel Lord Thompson House at 23 Summer Street, which was built by Littlefield in 1842.
		Horace Porter lived in the 1848 house until his death in 1864.
		The Porter House continues to be the headquarters for the Water District which maintains its historic integrity, making it one of the most significant historical landmarks of Kennebunk's Main Street.
	www.kkw.org /aboutkkwwd/porterhouse.html (336 words)

	Horace Porter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Horace Porter, (1837-1921), American soldier and diplomat, was born in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, the son of David R. Porter, a wealthy ironmater who later served as Governor of Pennsylvania.
		From 1869 to 1873, Porter served as Grant's personal secretary in the White House.
		Porter was president of the Union League Club of New York from 1893 to 1897.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Horace_Porter (272 words)

	Horace Porter
		Horace Porter, (1837-1921), American soldier and diplomat, was born in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania and educated at Harvard University.
		He graduated from West Point in 1860 and served in the Union army in the American Civil War, reaching the rank of brigadier general.
		From 1869 to 1873, Porter was the personal secretary of President Ulysses S. Grant, and he was the U.S. ambassador to France from 1897 to 1905 and he paid for the recovery of the body of John Paul Jones, sending it to the United States for reburial.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ho/Horace_Porter.html (127 words)

	General Horace Porter
		Horace Porter was born April 15, 1837 in Huntington, PA (United States of America), the son of David Rittenhouse Porter (1788-1867), a two time governor of the State of Pennsylvania.
		Rittendhouse Porter was the grand-uncle in law of President Abraham Lincoln.
		Throughout the war, Porter kept extensive notes of the campaigns, and he was present at General Lee's surrender at McLean's house on April 9, 1865.
	orbisenterprises.com /Musy_-_Gruyere/Pierre-1/Pierre-2/H_Porter-1/h_porter-1.html (362 words)

	The Recovery of the Body of John Paul Jones
		Horace Porter was born in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, 15 April, 1837.
		Horace was educated at home, and afterward entered the Lawrence scientific school of Harvard, and while there was appointed to the United States military academy, from which he graduated in 1860.
		Horace Porter was a charter member of the SAR from New York and its President General from 1892 to 1897.
	www.southcoastsar.org /Rcvry_JPJ.htm (3250 words)

	AllRefer.com - Horace Porter (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Horace Porter 1837–1921, American soldier and diplomat, b.
		During Grant's presidency Porter served as one of his executive secretaries until 1872.
		As delegate to the Hague Conference of 1907, he amended the Drago Doctrine (see under Drago, Luis MarIa) with his Porter Proposition, which provided that strong nations whose nationals had contract-debt claims against weaker nations should submit the claims to arbitration before trying to collect them by force.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/P/Porter-H.html (268 words)

	Terry McMillan to teach writing class
		Last year, Porter went to hear McMillan give a reading at a Palo Alto bookstore, hoping to speak to her afterward about the possibility of her teaching at Stanford.
		Porter later learned that history Professor Kennell Jackson had been corresponding with McMillan and had invited her to speak at Branner Hall, where he is a resident fellow.
		But, she told Porter, she would be devoting full time during the summer and fall to getting started on her next book.
	www.stanford.edu /dept/news/pr/93/930325Arc3355.html (739 words)

	Campaigning With Grant
		As a close-up observer of Grant in the field, Porter was also able to draw a finely detailed, fully realized portrait of this American military hero—his daily acts, his personal traits and habits, and the motives that inspired him in important crises—rendered in the language that Grant used at the time.
		Porter paints a group portrait of the Union leadership on the verge of tearing itself apart.
		As Porter says at one point, Grant was given the most appalling task in the history of the nation, and he accomplished it.
	www.researchonline.net /catalog/tlc20.htm (2074 words)

	Amazon.com: Campaigning with Grant: Books: Horace Porter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Horace Porter knew Grant quite well and thought he book was written in 1896, it still retains a vibrancy and modernity to it.
		Porter writes as if the North was never wrong, its commanders never fooled or mistaken, its armies never disspirited, and that the Union campaigns always succeeded.
		According to Porter, every time the Confederates didn't hold a field they were "repulsed handsomely." Every time the Union didn't hold the field, they were merely "compelled to retire." You will see these gross aberrations throughout this stale and shoddy work.
	www.amazon.com /Campaigning-Grant-Horace-Porter/dp/0792456041 (1955 words)

	Jazz/Jerry Jazz Musician/Horace Porter discusses the life of Ralph Ellison with Jerry Jazz Musician
		Horace Porter is the chair of African American World Studies and professor of English at the University of Iowa.
		He is the author of Stealing the Fire: The Art and Protest of James Baldwin and one of the editors of Call and Response: The Riverside Anthology of the African American Literary Tradition.
		Porter further examines the influences of Ellington and Armstrong as sources of the writer's personal and artistic inspiration and highlights the significance of Ellison's camaraderie with two African American friends and fellow jazz fans -- the writer Albert Murray and the painter Romare Bearden.
	www.jerryjazzmusician.com /linernotes/ralph_ellison_porter.html (3125 words)

	Footstone honors Civil War hero
		However, for some unknown reason, Porter, who received the honor for gallantry in the Battle of Chickamauga during the Civil War, never received the footstone at his grave, she said.
		After finding and returning Jones’ body to American soil, Porter campaigned to see that the patriot’s body was buried in Annapolis, Md. When Grant died, Porter successfully advocated for a special tombstone for the former general and president inside Arlington National Cemetery, Woolley explained.
		A native of Huntington, Pa., Porter was the son of a two-time governor of Pennsylvania, David Rittenhouse Porter, who was a great-uncle-in-law of President Abraham Lincoln, according to information provided by Woolley.
	hub.gmnews.com /news/2005/0929/Front_Page/005.html (856 words)

	Jazz Country
		Horace Porter takes a fresh approach when writing about Invisible Man, focusing on the novel as an example of American culture and the Harlem riot scene.
		Porters critique of Invisible Man pinpoints examples of Jazz techniques used by Ellison that a cursory reading of the novel would not reveal.
		Porter further points out that Invisible Man is book of sounds and signifying by quoting Henry Louis Gates Jr., who calls Invisible Man a talking book that helped to establish a collective fl voice...thereby to register a fl presence in letters.
	aalbc.com /reviews/jazzcountry.htm (532 words)

	Amazon.fr : The Making of a Black Scholar: From Georgia to the Ivy League: Livres en anglais: Horace A. Porter,Albert ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		This captivating and illuminating book is a memoir of a young fl man moving from rural Georgia to life as a student and teacher in the Ivy League as well as a history of the changes in American education that developed in response to the civil rights movement, the war in Vietnam, and affirmative action.
		Born in 1950, Horace Porter starts out in rural Georgia in a house that has neither electricity nor running water.
		Porter writes about working to establish the Þrst fl studies program at Amherst, the challenges of graduate study at Yale, the infamous Dartmouth Review, and his meetings with such writers and scholars as Ralph Ellison, Tillie Olsen, James Baldwin, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
	www.amazon.fr /Making-Black-Scholar-Georgia-League/dp/0877458359 (564 words)

	Amherst Magazine Spring 2003: Amherst in Black and White
		Porter was born to a poor family in rural Georgia, earned a scholarship to Amherst, then went on to earn a doctorate at Yale.
		The section of the book excerpted here deals with Porter’s first two years at Amherst, when the college was the scene of antiwar protests, moratoria and other social unrest.
		Horace Porter's homepage at the University of Iowa
	www.amherst.edu /magazine/issues/03spring/blackwhite (596 words)

	HORACE PORTER (1837– ) - Online Information article about HORACE PORTER (1837– )
		HORACE PORTER (1837–) - Online Information article about HORACE PORTER (1837–)
		Andrew Porter (1743-1813), an officer in the See also:
		interim, Porter was an assistant secretary, and from March 1869 to January 1873, when Grant was See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /POL_PRE/PORTER_HORACE_1837_.html (593 words)

	Photo of Medal of Honor Recipient Horace Porter
		Captain Horace Porter was one of nine soldiers awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism in the battle of Chickamauga, Georgia, on September 19 and 20, 1863.
		On the second day of that battle, while acting as a volunteer aid, Captain Porter became aware that the lines were broken and the tide of battle about to overwhelm the Union forces.
		At that critical moment he rounded up several retreating soldiers and pressed them to hold their ground in defense of the wagon trains and artillery batteries long enough for them to be brought off the field, preventing their capture by the enemy.
	www.homeofheroes.com /photos/1_civilwar/porter_horace.html (221 words)

	University of Iowa Press - Browse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		“Horace Porter has provided us with an excellent evocation of one of the most overlooked dimensions of the fl American experience since desegregation began in the 1960s: the movement of fl American scholars from segregated academic institutions into higher and higher levels of formerly white academic institutions.
		This process of 'intellectual integration,' with all its pains and risks and glory, is brilliantly captured by Horace Porter in the review of his own academic career.
		Porter writes about working to establish the first fl studies program at Amherst, the challenges of graduate study at Yale, the infamous Dartmouth Review, and his meetings with such writers and scholars as Ralph Ellison, Tillie Olsen, James Baldwin, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
	www.uiowa.edu /uiowapress/pormakof.htm (425 words)

	The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Porter, G to I
		Porter, George Bryan (1791-1834) — Born in Norristown,
		Porter, H. — of Houston, Harris County, Tex. Republican.
		David Rittenhouse Porter; nephew of George Bryan Porter and
	politicalgraveyard.com /bio/porter4.html (457 words)

	HORACE PORTER COLLECTION: FOLDER LISTING CONTINUED
		DESCRIPTION: Invitation to General Horace Porter to meet with members of the New York Commandery of the Loyal Legion at a banquet before he departs U.S. to assume post as U.S. Ambassador to France.
		Also, 1 certificate dated 4/17/1891 to Horace Porter from the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution.
		DESCRIPTION: 1 certificate of membership dated 2/6/1868 for Horace Porter to the Society of the Army of the Cumberland; signed by Philip Henry Sheridan.
	www.library.georgetown.edu /dept/speccoll/fl/f249}3.htm (1386 words)

	HORACE PORTER COLLECTION: FOLDER LISTING
		On reverse engraved name of Horace Porter, who was a delegate to the Second Hague Conference.
		DESCRIPTION: Daguerreotype of Horace Porter as a cadet, circa 1855, in a fine mother of pearl inlay depicting a tower at West Point.
		This was reproduced in Elsie Porter Mende's "An American Soldier and Diplomat, Horace Porter" (New York, 1927).
	www.library.georgetown.edu /dept/speccoll/fl/f249}1.htm (1466 words)

	HORACE PORTER JOSEPH CHOATE AUGUSTUS SAINT GAUDENS Autograph
		HORACE PORTER JOSEPH CHOATE AUGUSTUS SAINT GAUDENS Autograph
		On verso are the signatures of "Joseph H. Choate/19 June 1905" and "Horace Porter/July 21 1905" with an early five-cent McKinley stamp affixed at the right.
		Horace Porter was aide-de-camp to General Grant and was with him at the surrender of Lee at Appomattox.
	www.historyforsale.com /html/prodetails.asp?documentid=217376 (250 words)

	Porter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Horace Porter (1837-1921), Union general in the American Civil War and president of the Pullman Palace Car Company
		Porter (college), member of staff in many of the colleges of the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford, and Durham
		Porter College, residential college at the University of California, Santa Cruz
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Porter (512 words)

	Horace Porter
		The American diplomat and soldier Horace Porter was born in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, on the 15th of April 1837; son of David Rittenhouse Porter (1788-1867), Governor of Pennsylvania in 1839-45, and grandson of Andrew Porter (1743-1813), an officer in the Continental Army during the War of Independence, and surveyor-general of Pennsylvania from 1809 until his death.
		From August 1867 to January 1868, while General Grant was interim Secretary of War, Porter was an assistant secretary, and from March 1869 to January 1873, when Grant was president, Porter was his executive secretary.
		US Ambassador to France March 1897 to May 1905
	www.nndb.com /people/711/000050561 (351 words)

	Lincoln Farm Association 1907 - ( William H Taft, Horace Porter, Mark Twain ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Lincoln Farm Association 1907 - (William H Taft, Horace Porter, Mark Twain...
		Some of the Trustee's printed signatures on the certificate include William H Taft, Horace Porter, Mark Twain, and others.
		Certificate Vignette The Lincoln Farm Association was established April 18, 1906 for the purpose of honoring and perpetuating the memory of Abraham Lincoln, the taking and holding of 110 acres of his birthplace farm and the development and maintenance of the same.
	www.goantiques.com /detail,lincoln-farm-association,340527.html (257 words)

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