OBIT: Charles Howard PORTER, 1899, Hollidaysburg, Blair County, PA

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CHARLES HOWARD PORTER.

  Charles Howard Porter, who died of heart failure at his residence on Walnut 
street, Hollidaysburg, on Saturday at noon, was born in Alexandria, 
Huntingdon county, Pa., on May 3, 1840.  After taking a business course at 
Franklin and Marshall college, Lancaster, Pa., he came to Hollidaysburg and 
engaged in the coal business in 1863.  On June 7, 1864, he married Kathleen 
Banks, eldest daughter of Hon. Thaddeus Banks.  Mr. Porter's illness was 
severe and brief.  Only since last Tuesday he was confined to his room by an 
attack of neuralgia of the heart, and in spite of all the efforts of skillful 
physicians and efficient nursing he succumbed to a second attack on Saturday 
morning and passed away "to that bourne from which no traveler returns."
  He was a man of generous and gentle disposition; warm hearted and true in 
his friendship; charitable to the poor, and sympathetic to the sick and 
suffering.  He was a member of the First Presbyterian church of 
Hollidaysburg, and was faithful in his attendance at all its services.  He 
was the efficient secretary of the Blair County Agricultural society, and it 
was largely owing to his zealous services that the annual fairs have been 
such a success.  He was a member of the firm of Denniston, Porter & Co., coal 
merchants, and after the retirement of Mr. Denniston and the death of Judge 
Landis, continued the business until the present time.  He will be greatly 
missed and mourned in this community, where he has been such a prominent 
citizen for more than thirty years.  He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. 
Milliken, of Wilmington, Del, and Mrs. Parker, of Tyrone.

Altoona Tribune, Thursday, February 23, 1899