Porter, Henry H – Porter, Warren Hart
Porter, Henry H
lawyer, legislator, was born Sept. 17, 1838, in Holmes county, Ohio. He was admitted to the bar in 1870; and in 1880-81 was a member of the house of representatives of the sixty-fourth general assembly of Ohio.
Porter, Henry Ogden
naval officer, was born in 1823 in Washington, D.
C. He served in one of Walker's expeditions to Central America, where he fought bravely, and was wounded several times.
Afterward he was appointed lieutenant in the United States revenue marine, and during the civil war was made acting master in the navy April 24, 1862, serving as executive officer on the Hatteras when that vessel was sunk by the confederate steamer Alabama. He died in 1872 in Baltimore, Md.
Porter, Horace
soldier, was born April 15, 1837, in Huntington, Pa. He served through the civil war; and for meritorious services received the rank of brigadier-general. He was the first president of the New York West Shore and Buffalo railroad.
Porter, J. De Forest
lawyer, jurist, was born in New York. He settled in Nebraska; and in 1872 was appointed an associate justice of the supreme court for the territory of Arizona, residing in Arizona City.
Porter, James
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born in Williamstown, Mass. He was a member of the state assembly in 1814 and 1815; and was a representative in congress from New York from 1817 to 1819. After leaving congress he was appointed register of the court of chancery, which office he held un-- til his death, in Albany, N. Y.
Porter, James
clergyman, author, was born in 1800 in Maine. He was a prominent methodist clergyman of Boston; and the author of History of Methodism; The Winning Worker; Hints to Self-Educated Ministers; and Compendium of Methodism. He died April 16, 1888, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Porter, James Davis
soldier, lawyer, jurist, state legislator, governor, was born Dec. 7, 1828, in Paris, Tenn. In 1859 he was elected a representative in the Tennessee legislature. He served in the confederate army throughout the civil war as chief of staff on the staff of General Cheatham. In 1870 he was elected a member of the state constitutional convention of Tennessee; and in the summer of the same year was elected circuit judge for the twelfth judicial circuit of Tennessee.
In 1874 he was elected governor of Tennessee, serving until 1879. In 1880 he was elected president of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad company, and was four times re-elected. In 1885 he was appointed assistant secretary of state.
Porter, James Madison
soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born Jan. 6, 1793, in Salem, Mass. He was one of the founders of Lafayette college at Easton, Pa., and for twenty-five years president of its board of trustees. He was president judge of the twelfth and twenty-second judicial districts of Pennsylvania. He died Nov. 11, 1862, in Easton, Pa.
Porter, John
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1806 to 1811, having first been elected to fill a vacancy.
Porter, John Addison
educator, author, was born March 15, 1822, in Catsville, N. Y. He was a professor of chemistry at Yale college in 1852-64; and the author of Principles of Chemistry; and First Book of Chemistry. He died Aug. 25, 1866, in New Haven, Conn.
Porter, John Addison
journalist, public official, author, was born April 17, 1856, in New Haven, Conn. He is the editor and proprietor of the Hartford Post. He was elected to the Connecticut house of representatives in 1892; and was presented as a candidate for governor in the republican state conventions of Connecticut in 1894 and 1896. He was appointed secretary to President McKinley Feb. 5, 1897. He is the author of Administration of the City of Washington; and Sketches of Yale Life.
Porter, Linn Boyd
author. He is a novelist of Cambridge whose writings have been extremely popular, although severely criticised from a literary point of view as well as from an ethical standpoint. Among them are Thou Shalt Not; Speaking of Ellen; A Black Adonis; and Out of Wedlock.
PORTER, MRS. LYDIA ANN [EMER- SON], educator, author, was born Oct. 14, 1816, in Newburyport, Mass. She is an educator of Springfield, Vt.; and the author of Uncle Jerry's Letters to Young Mothers; and The Lost Will.
Porter, Moses
soldier, was born in 1755 in Danvers, Mass. He entered the revolutionary army as a lieutenant in 1775; and served at Bunker Hill and through the war. He was brevetted brigadier-general in 1813, and became colonel of the first artillery in 1821. He died April 14, 1822, in Cambridge, Mass.
Porter, Noah
clergyman, author, was born in December, 1781, in Farmington, Conn. He was ordained pastor of the congregational church in his native town, which charge he held until his death. He published occasional sermons in the National Preacher, a Half-Century Discourse in the fiftieth year of his ministry, and contributed to the Christian Spectator. He died Sept. 24, 1866, in Farmington, Conn.
Porter, Noah
clergyman, author, was born Dec. 14, 1811, in Farmington, Conn. He was a congregational clergyman of Connecticut, president of Yale college in 1871-85, and a metaphysician of distinction. He was the author of The Human Intellect; Books and Reading; Elements of Intellectual Science; Elements of Moral Science; The American Colleges and the American Public; Science and Sentiment; Bishop Berkeley; Fifteen Years in Yale College Chapel, a volume of sermons; and The Science of Nature and the Science of Man. He died March 4, 1892, in New Haven, Conn.
Porter, Peter Augustus
soldier, state legislator, was born in 1827 in Black Rock, N. Y. He was a member of the New York legislature in 1862; and in that year he raised a regiment, afterward consolidated with the eighth New York artillery, and was placed in command, and served on garrison duty. He was killed June 3, 1864, in the battle of Cold Harbor, Va.
Porter, Peter Buel
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 4, 1773, in Salisbury, Conn. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1809 to 1813, and from 1815 to 1816, when he resigned. In 1813 he was made majorgeneral, and chief in command of the state troops. Soon after the war he was chosen secretary of the state of New York; and in 1816 was appointed commissioner under the treaty of Ghent. In 1828 he was appointed secretary of war. He died March 20, 1844, in Niagara Falls, N. Y.
Porter, Rose
author, was born in 1845 in New York. She is an author of New Haven who has written and compiled a large number of religious books. Among her original works are Summer Driftwood for the Winter Fire; A Modern St. Christopher; Our Saints, a Family Story; and My Son's Wife.
Porter, Rufus
journalist, inventor, was born May 1, 1792, in West Boxford, Mass. In 1840 he became editor of the New York Mechanic, which prospered, and in the following year he moved it to Boston, where he called it the American Mechanic. The new art of electrotyping there attracted his attention, and he gave up editorial work in order to occupy himself with the new invention. He died Aug. 13, 1884, in New Haven, Conn.
Porter, Samuel
journalist, educator, author, was born Jan. 12, 1810, in Farmington, Conn. He has made a special study of phonetics, was editor of the American Annals of the Deaf and Dumb from 1854 till 1860; and has published The Vowel Elements in Speech, a Phonological and Philological Essay.
Porter, Thomas
soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born in May, 1734, in Farmington, Conn. For ten years he was judge of the supreme and county courts of Vermont. He died in August, 1833, in Granville, N. Y.
Porter, Thomas Conrad
clergyman, educator, author, was born Jan. 22, 1822, in Alexandria, Pa. He is a German reformed clergyman famous as a botanist, and professor of botany at Lafayette college, Easton, Pa., from 1866. He is the author of Sketch of the Flora of Pennsylvania; Sketch of the Botany of the United States; Synopsis of the Flora of Colorado (with J. M. Coulter); The Carices of Pennsylvania; and The Grasses of Pennsylvania.
Porter, Thomas F
business man, journalist, poet, was born Oct. 30, 1847, in Nova Scotia. He received a thorough education, and for many years was engaged in journalistic work. He wrote a column weekly for the Danbury News in palmiest days; and is a contributor of both prose and verse to Judge, the Boston Journal, Yankee Blade, the Waverly Magazine, and the periodical press generally. He has written a number of poems of merit, some of which have been given a place in Poets of America and other standard works. He is engaged principally in real estate and insurance at Lynn, Mass., where he takes a prominent part in the public affairs of his city, county and state. was
Porter, Thomas P
lawyer, born July 7, 1821, in Richmond, Ky. In 1859 he was unanimously elected permanent speaker of the senate.
Porter, Timothy H
state senator, congressman, was born in New Haven, Conn. He served five years in the assembly of New York; and also served five years in the state senate. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1825 to 1827.
Porter, Warren Hart
lawyer, was born Nov. 4, 1837, in Cattaraugus, N.
Y. He received his education in the public and private schools, and at the university of Wisconsin. He is a prominent lawyer of Jefferson, Wis.; has for many years been city attorney; and has held numerous other public positions of trust.