Biographical Sketch of Felix R. Porter, Springfield, Greene County, MO

>From "History of Greene County, Missouri," St. Louis: Western
Historical Company, 1883.

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This gentleman is the son of William C. and Judith R. (Owen) Porter,
and was born in Weakley County, Tenn., March 7, 1841.  His parents mov-
ed to Springfield, Missouri, in June, 1856.  They lived some little
time in town, but his father soon purchased a farm three miles east of
Ebenezer, this county.  It was here that Felix was educated and grew to
manhood.  At the commencement of the civil war he enlisted in the Con-
federate service under Capt. Bradford, whose company was then attached 
to Gen. Price's body guard.  After the battle of Pea Ridge he was taken
sick, but in the fall of 1862, he joined Company A, 3rd Missouri Cav-
alry, Col. C. E. Green.  The regiment was attached to Gen. Marmaduke's
brigade upon the 12th of January, 1863.  They surrendered at Shreveport
Louisiana, June 7, 1865.  Mr. Porter was in the battles of Helena,
Little Rock, and Poison Springs.  At Little Rock, he had his gun shot
from his hands, and was wounded in the left leg.  At Poison Springs he
was wounded in the right shoulder.  He was married January 17, 1867,
at Smithville, Arkansas, to Miss Sadie Fields.  Their union has been
blest with two sons and two daughters.  He was elected by the city 
council in 1873, to the office of street commissioner, and has been to
a considerable extent engaged in mercantile business.  He was elected
justice of the peace upon the Democratic ticket for Campbell township,
in 1882.  His father was born in Rockingham County, North Carolina, in
1803, and came to Williamson County, Tennessee, in 1811, where he marr-
ied and reared a large family, all sons.

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