Porter, Benjamin F
soldier, jurist, was born Dec. 25, 1843, near Mount Vernon, Ala. During the war he served in company E, eleventh Alabama regiment; served in the Virginia army, and was captured at Sharpsburg, Md. He was wounded at Salem church, and again at railroad below Petersburg; and was in the Mahone brigade. For six years he was clerk of the circuit court, and justice of the peace; in 1880 was elected judge of the probate court, and ex-officio judge of the county court of Washington county, Ala., and he is now serving his third term of six years.