Sullivan County PA Archives Biographies.....PORTER, Charles N. 1841 - 
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  Author: Thomas J. Ingham (1899)
  
       CHARLES N. PORTER. - Among the brave men who helped to make up the quota of
  soldiers sent by Pennsylvania to the defense of the Union in the dark days of
  the Rebellion was the subject of this sketch, now a leading agriculturist of Fox
  township, Sullivan county. He made an honorable record by his gallant service
  and in the paths of peace he has proved himself equally worthy of the confidence
  and esteem of his fellow citizens.
  
      He was born in Schoharie county, New York, where his ancestors made their
  home many years ago. Latney D. Porter, our subject's father, was born and reared
  in the town of Broome, that county, and was married there to Miss Mahala Loose,
  a native of the same county. In 1842 he removed to this section, having received
  by will a tract of land in Sullivan county, from a relative of his wife. Later
  he bought other tracts in Fox township, and at the time of his death he owned a
  large amount of land. His wife died when our subject was but three years old. Of
  their other children the first died in infancy; William is a farmer in Lycoming
  county, Pennsylvania; Nathan, formerly a resident of Fox township, who was
  killed by a falling tree; Daniel, a farmer in Fox township, who died in 1897;
  Harvey, a farmer in Fox township; Densey, wife of B. S. Porter, a farmer in
  Lycoming county; and Miner, who married Annie Brown and settled in Fox township,
  Sullivan county, but met a soldier's death at Fort Garrison, on October 1, 1864,
  while serving in Company B, Fifty-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry.
  
      Our subject was brought to Sullivan county when a babe and was educated
  chiefly in the schools of Fox township. On October 18, 1861, at the age of
  twenty, he enlisted in Company B, Fifty-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers, for
  three years, under Captain Metcalf, and during his term he took part in many
  severe battles in Virginia and North Carolina. He returned home in the fall of
  1864 and in the following year went to Minnesota and spent a winter working as a
  lumberman in the woods. Since that time he has been engaged in general farming
  in Sullivan county and has besides conducted a grocery store in Shunk for a year
  and has filled numerous contracts for buildings and similar work. He owns about
  one hundred and fifty acres of land, much of it under cultivation, and has
  devoted considerable attention to stock-raising. Politically he is a steadfast
  Republican, and among the offices which he has held we may mention those of
  constable, overseer of the poor and commissioner of the township; and he has
  served on the election board at various times as judge and clerk, while his
  interest in educational affairs has been shown by several years of effective
  work as school director. Socially he and his family are prominent and he belongs
  to the P. of I. and the P. O. S. of A., being a charter member of the latter
  society at Shunk.
  
      Mr. Porter was married to Miss Henrietta Williams, November 5, 1866, in Fox
  township. She was a daughter of Henry Williams, and her death took place in
  1871. Our subject was married a second time, his bride on this occasion being
  Miss Rebecca Kilmer, a native of Fox township, Sullivan county, and a daughter
  of Peter Kilmer. By the first union he had two children: Myrtie, the wife of
  Morris E. Morgan, a farmer in Fox township; and Henry, who died in infancy. By
  his second marriage there are three children: Otus, a farmer living on the
  homestead; Orwell, who married Miss Eva Brown and resides on a farm in Fox
  township; and Harry E., at home. Mrs. Myrtie Morgan has six children: Lenora,
  eleven years of age; Floyd, nine years; Henrietta, seven years; Daniel, four
  years; Leon, two years; and Agnes, three months.
  
  
  Additional Comments:
      Extracted from: 
        
      History of Sullivan County Pennsylvania
      by Thomas J. Ingham
        
      Compendium of Biography
        
      The Lewis Publishing Company
      Chicago: 1899
  
  
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