Hancock County IL Archives Biographies.....Porter, Ephraim H. November 24, 1858 - 
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Source: Hancock, McDonough and Henderson Counties, Illinois
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EPHRAIM H. PORTER, the well-known 
editor of the Hancock County Pilot, which 
is published in Warsaw, claims Alabama as 
the State of his nativity, his birth having occurred 
in Gadsden, November 24, 1858. His parents 
were Ephraim and Sarah A. Porter, the former 
a native of Connecticut, and the latter of North 
Carolina. During his life the father engaged in 
various pursuits, having been a school teacher, 
merchant, farmer and saddler. He spent about a 
quarter of a century in the sunny South, but in 
1865 removed from Georgia to the North, taking 
up his residence in Danville, Iowa, where his last 
days were passed. His death occurred on the 8th 
of August, 1890, at the age of seventy-four years. 
Mrs. Porter still survives her husband and is now 
living with her son in Warsaw. The family num- 
bered eleven children, six of whom are yet liv- 
ing. They are all married, but are widely scat- 
tered. One resides in Gadsden, Ala.; the second 
in Chicago; another in Triplett, Mo.; the fourth 
in Alliance, Neb.; and another in Marble Mount, 
Wash. 

Mr. Porter of this sketch was only seven years 
of age at the time of his parents' removal to Iowa. 
His education was completed in the High School 
of Danville, that State. He was reared on a farm, 
and with his father learned the saddler's trade, 
which he followed for a time, but, wishing to de- 
vote his time and attention to other pursuits, he 
decided to enter the newspaper field, and at the 
age of eighteen years began learning the printer's 
trade in an office in Danville. He was afterward 
associated with his father in the publication of the 
Danville News. He embarked in this enterprise 
in 1881 and continued it until 1883, when he sold 
out and removed to Martinsville, Clark County, 
Ill., where he formed a partnership with John 
Shepherd, an old schoolmate, and established 
the Martinsville Planet. This connection con- 
tinued for a year, when Mr. Porter bought out 
his partner's interest and continued the publica- 
tion of his paper alone during the four succeed- 
ing years. Then, selling out, in 1889, and coming 
to Warsaw, he established the Hancock County Pi- 
lot, a paper published in the interest of the Demo- 
cratic party. He has been quite successful in this 
undertaking, and it has now gained quite an ex- 
tensive circulation. The paper is a bright, newsy 
sheet, well edited, and is deserving of a liberal 
patronage. 

On the 9th of May, 1882, Mr. Porter was united 
in marriage with Miss Mary Elizabeth Petzinger, 
and to them has been born an interesting family 
of six children. In his social relations, Mr. Por- 
ter is an Odd Fellow, belonging to Hancock Lodge 
No. 71, I.O.O.F. In his political views, he is 
a stalwart Democrat. Public-spirited and pro- 
gressive, he is ever alive to the best interests of 
the community in which he lives, and does all in 
his power to aid in its advancement. 

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