William Lloyd Porter and Ethel Doty Rodgers

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Husband William Lloyd Porter ¹

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           Born: 8 Feb 1879 2
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         Father: Samuel C. Porter (1840-      ) 3
         Mother: Mary Calvert (1846-      ) 3

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       Marriage: 5 Mar 1903 4

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Wife Ethel Doty Rodgers ⁵

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           Born: 15 Nov 1881 4
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         Father: John H. Rodgers (Abt 1841-1908) 4
         Mother: Ursula Doty (Abt 1842-Aft 1909) 4

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General Notes: Husband - William Lloyd Porter

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After passing through the common schools of Jamestown, Mercer County, Pennsylvania, he enjoyed a partial course at the local high school and at the state normal school located at Grove City, Pennsylvania. He then returned to the family homestead (the Porter farm) and continued to assist his father in its management and improvement.

In addition to general farming, he conducted a model and profitable dairy of eight to ten cattle, including one registered Holstein and three thoroughbreds.

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General Notes: Wife - Ethel Doty Rodgers

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Through the care and just family pride of Mrs. William L. Porter, the genealogy and early history of the Doty family have been compiled and preserved, their descendants having settled in the United States from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and a record of their honorable lives has been published, ranging from the days of the Pilgrim fathers to the year 1900. The original Mayflower emigrant was Edward Doty, who married Faith Clark, both being of English birth.
She not only had the family record in book form, but treasured many heirlooms relating to its very earliest American representatives. One of the most interesting of these is a photograph of the home erected by the Dotys forty years after the landing of the Mayflower and the original forefathers of the family at Plymouth, Massachusetts. As this historic house was demolished in 1901, the photograph was naturally, highly prized. Among the actual articles which descended to her generation were a chain of 1829, a double mirror one hundred and twenty-five years old, a pair of hand-made spectacles used by the maternal grandmother, and a piece of antique furniture used by both of the grandparents during the first years of their housekeeping. Mr. Porter himself had an interesting record of the family in the shape of a clipping from an old Cleveland newspaper giving an account of a duel by swords fought by Edward Doty, the first American ancestor, and a certain Edward Leister. This is said to have been the first duel ever fought in America.

By the death of her father, Mrs. Porter came into possession of the old Rodger's homestead, thus acquiring property which was not only of historical interest but which was considered one of the best producing farms in Mercer County.

1 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 779, 811.

2 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 779.

3 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 779, 810.

4 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 780.

5 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 780, 811.