Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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John Lupher Porter and Augusta Marlin Fisher




Husband John Lupher Porter 1

           Born: 1 Jul 1868 - Meadville, Crawford Co, PA 1
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         Father: James Amberson Porter (1841-1915) 1
         Mother: Elizabeth Dorothy Weber (1845-      ) 1


       Marriage: 18 Jan 1893 1



Wife Augusta Marlin Fisher 1

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         Father: John J. Fisher (      -      ) 1
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General Notes: Husband - John Lupher Porter


He received his degree of A.B. at Allegheny College, Meadville, Pennsylvania, in 1890, and began his business career in the Miller Pipe Line Company of Oil City and was later associated with the National Transit Company and the Anglo-American Oil Company. From 1895 he was the financial representative of Henry Fisher, formerly of Redlands, California, later of Florence, Italy.
The various activities with which he was connected thereafter were: president of the Union Storage Company and of the Pure Water Supply Company; director of the Fisher Oil Company, of the Enlow Oil Company, and of the Gilmore Fire Clay Company; director, secretary and treasurer of the Hazelton Land Company; vice president of the Board of Trustees of Carnegie Institute; vice chairman of the Board of Trustees of Carnegie Institute of Technology; member of the Fine Arts Committee, founder of the One Hundred Friends of Pittsburgh Art, of the Pennsylvania Division, American Federation of Arts, Art Society of Pittsburgh, and of Sulgrave Institution. He was a member of the Henry C. Frick Educational Commission, National Economic League, Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce, Western Pennsylvania Exposition Society, and an honorary member of the Alumni Federation of Carnegie Institute of Technology, the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, and the Hindustan Association of America.
Mr. Porter was a member of the Pennsylvania Society of Mayflower Descendants, a member of the Pennsylvania Beta Corporation of Phi Kappa Psi, Pi Gamma Mu, Omicron Delta Kappa, and Phi Kappa Psi of New York. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and of the following clubs: Duquesne, Pittsburgh Country, Oakmont Country, Fox Chapel Golf, and the Salamagundi Club of New York.

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Sources


1 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 115.


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