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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 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, 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, 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, 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.