Tipton County IN Archives Biographies.....Porter, Robert L. 1848 - 
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Author: Charles Blanchard, Editor (1883)

   ROBERT L. PORTER, Auditor of Tipton County, was born in Hamilton County,
Ohio, July 18, 1848. While he was yet young, his parents removed to Darke
County, Ohio, where he was reared. During his youth, he learned the silversmith
trade, and has followed that occupation with but a few intermissions ever since.
On the breaking-out of the late rebellion, he enlisted in Company E, Fifth Ohio
Volunteer Cavalry. In 1867, Mr. Porter located in Tipton in the silversmith and
jeweler's business, in which he engaged until his election as County Auditor in
November, 1882. He has been four times elected Clerk of the Town of Tipton,
which office he held for a period of four years; he was married in Howard
County, June 8, 1872, to Miss Ella Raines. The issue of their marriage consists
of one son, Clyde. Mr. Porter is a Democrat, and both an Odd Fellow and a Mason.

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COUNTIES OF HOWARD AND TIPTON, INDIANA.

HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL.
ILLUSTRATED.

CHARLES BLANCHARD. EDITOR.
CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO.
1883.


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