Porter, Wilbur F – Post, Truman Marcellus
Porter, Wilbur F
lawyer, public official, was born June 22, 1831, in Schuyler, N. Y. He is a successful lawyer of Watertown, N. Y.; has been mayor of his city for five terms; and is now a member of the court of claims of the state of New York.
Porter, William Augustus
lawyer, jurist, author, was born May 24, 1821, in Huntingdon county, Pa. He was admitted to the bar in Philadelphia in 1842; was sheriff of that city in 1843; and was city solicitor in 1856. He was judge of the superior court in 1858. He was the author of Essay on Law, and Sheriffs; Life of Chief Justice John Gibson; and Addresses. He died June 28, 1886, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Porter, William David
lawyer, jurist, was born Jan. 3, 1848, in Freeman's Landing, W. Va. In 1870 he was admitted to the bar, and practiced law until he was elevated to the bench in 1891. He has served faithfully as a judge of the court of common pleas of the fifth judicial district of Pennsylvania.
Porter, William F
farmer, legislator, was born June 1, 1861, in Champaign, Ill. In 1879 he moved to Nebraska; and served with distinction as a member in the twenty-second and twentythird sessions of the Nebraska state legislature. He is a successful farmer of Clarks, Neb.; and is now serving as secretary of the state of Nebraska.
Porter, William H
farmer, legislator, was born May 8, 1856, in Hatfield, Mass. He is a successful farmer of Agawam, Mass.; prominent in the public affairs of his state; and secretary of the Hampden Agricultural society. In 1897 he was elected a member of the Massachusetts state legislature.
Porter, William Trotter
journalist, was born Dec. 24, 1809, in Newbury, Vt. In 1829 he became connected with the Farmer's Herald at St. Johnsbury, Vt., and the following year he became associate editor of The Enquirer at Norwich. His cherished project was put into effect in 1831, when he issued the initial number of the Spirit of the Times, the first sporting journal in the United States. He died July 20, 1858, in New York city.
Porter, William Wood
soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born Sept. 8, 1826, in Orange county, Va. He was elected district attorney of San Joaquin county, Cal. In 1855 he became county judge of Calaveras county to fill a vacancy; and in 1856 was elected to the same office for a full term of four years. At the breaking out of the civil war in 1861 he returned to Virginia and entered the confederate army as aid to Gen. George B. Crittenden. In 1872 he returned to California and settled at Santa Rosa in the practice of law; and in 1885 was appointed an associate justice of the supreme court of the territory of Arizona.
Porterfield, Charles
soldier, was born in 1750 in Frederick county, Va.
He was first sergeant of Capt. Daniel Morgan's company in the revolutionary war, and was captured in the assault on Quebec, Dec. 31, 1775. After being exchanged he served as captain until 1777, then he was appointed lieutenant-colonel of a Virginia regiment, and was mortally wounded in the battle of Camden, S. C., Aug. 16, 1780, and died in the following October on the banks of the Santee river.
Porterfield, George A
soldier, banker, was born Nov. 24, 1822, in Berkeley county, Va., now West Virginia. In 1844 he graduated from the Virginia Military institute of Lexington. In 1846 he helped to raise a company of volunteers for service in the war with Mexico.
July 10, 1847; he was appointed adjutant of the Virginia regiment at Buena Vista; and on Oct. 27 of the same year was promoted to acting-assistant adjutantgeneral to the division stationed at and near Buena Vista; which position he held until the end of the war. He declined a place on the staff of Gen. Wood. In 1861 he was appointed colonel of volunteers in the confederate service, and was ordered to raise a command in northwestern Virginia. He collected a force of about eight hundred men; was subsequently relieved of command; and later served on the staff of Gen. W. W. Loring; was in command of a brigade under Gen. Edward Johnson, but retired from the service in May, 1862. He is a prominent banker of Charlestown, W. Va.
Porterfield, Robert
soldier, jurist, was born Feb. 22, 1752, in Frederick county, Va. He was appointed a lieutenant in the continental army in 1776; was promoted to a captaincy, and served in Col.
Daniel Morgan's regiment until 1779, when he was appointed aid to Gen. William Woodford; and in 1780 was surrendered with him a prisoner of war in the siege of Charleston. In the war of 1812 he was a brigadier-general of militia; and an unsuccessful candidate of the federal party for congress in 1889. He was a justice of Augusta county, Va., for more than fifty years; was twice high sheriff, and died in that county Feb. 13, 1843.
Portier, Michel
bishop, was born Sept. 7, 1795, in France. In 1826 he was consecrated Roman catholic bishop of Olena, at St. Augustine, Fla. He died May 14, 1859, in Mobile, Ala.
Pory, John
pioneer, was born about 1570 in England. During 1619-21 he was secretary of the Virginia colony, and he was elected speaker of the first representative assembly that was ever held in this country, which convened in Jamestown in 1619. He died before 1635 in Virginia.
Posey, Carnot
soldier, was born Aug. 5, 1818, in Wilkinson county, Miss.
He became colonel of the sixteenth Mississippi regiment in 1861, and was appointed brigadier-general in the confederate army in 1862. He died Nov. 13, 1863, in Charlottesville, Va.
Posey, John W
lawyer, public official, was born Aug. 6, 1847, in Petersburg, Ind. He attended the Georgetown academy, and the Baylor university. He is a successful lawyer and land agent of Austin, Texas; has been county treasurer; justice of the peace; county commissioner of Nolan county; and has held various other public positions of trust.
Posey, Thomas
soldier, United States senator, was born July 9, 1750, in Virginia. From 1786 to 1793 he was county lieutenant of Spottsylvania, Va., and was appointed brigadier-general. He was a state senator; and was lieutenant-governor of Virginia for four years. He was major-general of Kentucky levees in 1809.
He was United States senator from Louisiana in 1812, by appointment of the governor. He was governor of Indian territory from 1813 to 1816; and was agent of Indian affairs in 1816, which position he held until his death. He died March 19, 1818, in Shawneetown, Ill.
Posse, Nils
educator, author, was born in 1862 in Sweden. He was a Boston instructor in gymnastics; and the author of Special Kinesiology of Educational Gymnastics; Medical Gymnastics; and Scientific Aspect of Swedish Gymnastics.
He died in 1895.
Post, George A
lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 1, 1854, in Cuba, N. Y. He entered the service of the Erie Railway company; and was for several years secretary of the motive power department. He was elected chief burgess of Susquehanna in 1877. He was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the forty-eighth congress as a democrat.
Post, Isaac
philanthropist, author, was born Feb. 26, 1798, in Westbury, N.
Y. He resided in Rochester when public attention was first attracted to the manifestations by the Fox sisters, and became one of the earliest converts to spiritualism. He was the author of Voices from the Spirit World, being Communications from Many Spirits, by the Hand of Isaac Post, Medium. He died May 9, 1872, in Rochester, N. Y.
Post, Jotham
state legislator, congressman. He was a member of the New York assembly for four years from the city of New York; and was a representative in congress from his native state from 1813 to 1815.
Post, Minturn
physician, was born June 28, 1808, in New York city. In 1843 he was called to be medical examiner of the New York Life Insurance company. He translated and added notes to Raciborski's Auscultation and Percussion. He died April 26, 1869, in New York city.
Post, Morton E
congressman, was born Dec. 25, 1840, in Monroe county, N.
Y. He was elected a member of the territorial council in 1878; and was elected the delegate from Wyoming to the fortyseventh and forty-eighth congresses as a democrat.
Post, Philip Sidney
soldier, congressman, was born March 19, 1833, in Florida, N. Y. He entered the union army in 1861 as second lieutenant fifty-ninth Illinois infantry, and was promoted brigadier-general by brevet. He was appointed consul to Vienna in 1866; was promoted consulgeneral for Austria- Hungary in 1874; and was a member at large of the Illinois republican state central committee from 1882 to 1886. He was commander department of Illinois Grand Army of the Republic in 1886. He was elected to the fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-second, fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses. He died Jan. 6. 1895, in Washington, D. C., before taking his seat in the fifty-fourth congress.
Post, Truman Marcellus
clergyman, author, was born June 3, 1810, in Middlebury, Vt. He was a congregational clergyman and editor of St. Louis, professor of history in Washington university; and the author of The Skeptical Era in Modern History. He died Dec. 31, 1886, in St. Louis, Mo.