Harry Porter Deuel (December 11, 1836 – November 23, 1914) was a prominent railroad man in Omaha, Nebraska.
[4][5] Born in Clarkson, New York to Charles P. and Lucy H. (Porter) Deuel, young Harry's family moved to Farmington, Illinois, when he was a year old.
He worked on the family farm until November 1859 when he moved to Omaha, Nebraska, to work with his uncle, Judge John R. Porter, to run the Porter and Deuel Steamboat Agency, Forwarding and Commission Company.
[5] Deuel eventually became the agent for the Kansas City, St. Joseph, & Council Bluffs Railroad.
He was the thirty-third degree Scottish Rite, the Ancient Arabic Order, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.