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Porter, Charles H – Porter, J. De Forest
Porter, Charles H
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born in Cairo, N.
Y. He settled at Norfolk, Va.; was attorney for the commonwealth from 1863 until 1870; and attorney for the city one year. He was a member of the constitutional convention of Virginia in 1867 and 1868; and was elected a representative from Virginia to the forty-first and fortysecond congresses as a republican.
Porter, Charles Talbot
civil engineer, author, was born in 1826 in New York. He is a mechanical engineer of prominence; and the author of Mechanics and Faith, a Study of the Spiritual Truths in Nature.
Porter, Cyrus Kinne
architect, was born Aug. 27, 1828, in Cicero, N. Y.
Among the notable buildings erected recently which show his complete mastery of every detail of his profession, may be mentioned the Coal and Iron exchange, Trinity church, St. Patrick's church, and the Builder's exchange, Buffalo, N. Y.
Porter, David
naval officer, author, was born Feb. 1, 1780, in Boston, Mass.
He was a once noted commodore in the United States navy; and in 1839 became United States resident minister to Turkey.
He was the author of Journal of a Cruise to the Pacific Ocean in 1812-15; and Constantinople and its Environs. He died March 3, 1843, in Turkey.
Porter, Ebenezer
clergyman, educator, author, was born Oct. 5, 1772, in Cromwell, Conn. He was a congregational clergyman and educator, of contemporary renown as a preacher. He was professor of sacred rhetoric at Andover Theological seminary in 1812-32, and president of that institution from 1827 till his death. Among his publications are The Young Preacher's Manual; A Rhetorical Reader, which reached its three hundredth edition; Lectures on Homiletics; and Lectures on Eloquence and Style. He died April 8, 1834, in Andover.
Porter, George Bryan
lawyer, governor, was born Feb. 9, 1791, in Norristown, Pa. He was governor of Michigan territory from 1831 to 1834. He died July 18, 1835, in Detroit, Mich.
Porter, George W
soldier, was born about 1806. He was a lieutenant in the thirty-eighth United States infantry in 1814-15; and made many valuable inventions, including the Porter rifle. He died Nov. 7, 1856, in Memphis, Tenn.
Porter, Gilchrist
congressman, was born in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from Missouri from 1851 to 1857.
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.