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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.