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Surname: PORTER
Source: Walpole As It Was and As It Is by George Aldrich, 
        The Claremont Manufacturing Co., Claremont, N.H., 1880, pages 344-345

Porter, Vine, the progenitor of the Porter families now living in town, was born at Crown Point, NY, Sep. 22, 
1801. He married Hannah Pike, of Morristown, Vt., who was born in Brookfield, Vt., June 27, 1801. For a 
while after marriage he resided in Morristown where four of his children were born, viz.,
I. Winslow B., b. Nov. 21, 1823, (see Physicians in Walpole.) m. Laura M., dau. of Luther and Irene 
(Dunshee) Burt, of this town. Ch. 1st. Warren W., 2nd, Mary B., m. John G. Shedd--residence Chicago, 
Il. Samuel H., b. Nov. 26, 1825; m. Harriet A., dau. of Josiah and Sarah (Merriam) Emerson, of Alstead, 
N.H. Ch. 1st Emma A., b. in Boston, Mass., Nov. 9th, 1854; m. Spaulding S. Shedd--resides in Oneida, 2nd, 
Frank W. 3rd, John Lincoln (See Ap.) 
III. Wm. H., b. May 10, 1830, m. Clementine R., dau. of Robert Balch, of Johnson, Vt. He is a physician, 
settled in Surry, N.H. Ch. 1st, Myron H., b. June 3, 1855. 2nd, Ellen H., b. Dec. 22, 1861. 3rd, Katie H., b. 
Jan. 26, 1865. 
IV. James H., b. June 1, 1832; m. Ellen M., dau. of Warren Wentworth, Alstead, N.H. issue 1 ch. Fred W., 
b. in Boston in 1864. James H. resides in Chicago, Ill., and is a general western passenger ag't for the Great 
Western railroad. 
V. George P., b. in Walpole, June 23, 1834; m. Sarah J., dau. of Royal Ladd of Hoosick, NY Issue 1 
ch. Mabel (See Ap.)
Vine Porter removed to this town and settled on what is now known as the Corey farm, Mar. 31, 1834, and 
lived there till Sep. 24, 1843, when he died, leaving a widow and five boys, the oldest being 20, and the 
youngest 9 yrs. Although those boys were left at the lower round of the ladder they have, by dint of heroic 
determination and perseverance, guided by the counsels of a good mother, managed to keep the wolf from 
the door, and ascended one round after another till all have acquired a good English education and become 
highly respectable members of the community--two of them became physicians. Although cradled in 
poverty, they may ere long thank Heaven that they were not born with a gold spoon in their mouths.