Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Porter, Dr Harry Hume 
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Author: Past & Present, 1907

Dr. Harry Hume Porter is one of the younger representatives of the dental 
fraternity in Will county but his years seem no bar to his ability nor his 
success, for he is enjoying a liberal patronage in Monee. He was born in 
Danville, Illinois, in 1875. His father, Ozro Porter, was born in northeastern 
Pennsylvania and is now living at Marengo, Illinois, being a retired passenger 
conductor. He was with the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad and in former 
years he was with the Grand Trunk, the Wabash and the Northern Pacific 
Railroad Companies, and he is a member of the Order of Railroad Conductors. He 
owns a cattle ranch of one thousand acres in North Dakota, which is a good 
property and returns to him a gratifying income. His political views are in 
harmony with republican principles. He married Sophia Hume, who was born in 
Wesleyville, Pennsylvania, and they have two sons, the younger, Jay F., being 
assistant yard foreman of the Illinois Steel works at South Chicago. Harry H. 
Porter attended the Marengo high school and, making choice of the dental 
profession as a life work, he was for three years a student in a dental office 
at Marengo prior to entering the Chicago College of Dental Surgery in 1893. He 
was graduated from that institution with the class of 1897 and began the 
practice of his profession in Hampshire, where he remained for seven years. On 
account of illness he then retired from the profession for two years, but in 
June, 1905, resumed active connection therewith and has since been located in 
Monee, where he has already secured a very liberal patronage. He is skilled in 
mechanical work, thoroughly conversant with the profession in its scientific 
connection and, moreover, has the business ability which is so necessary to a 
successful professional career. Dr. Porter was married on the 16th of 
December, 1899, to Miss Beulah Rowell, who was born in Hampshire, Illinois, in 
1880, a daughter of Fremont Rowell, a merchant. They now have two children, 
Merriam and Ralph, aged respectively four and two years. Dr. Porter was 
director of the choir of the Methodist Episcopal church at Hampshire for five 
years and possesses considerable ability in both vocal and instrumental music. 
He is fraternally a Woodman and an Odd Fellow and is independent in politics. 
In manner he is courteous and genial, affable and kindly, and these qualities, 
together with his deference for the opinions of others, render him a favorite 
in social circles.

Additional Comments:
Past and Present of Will County, Illinois, by W. W. Stevens, President of the 
Will County Pioneers Association. Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing 
Company, 1907.

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