Moses E. Porter and Belle Stacy

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Husband Moses E. Porter ¹

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            AKA: M. O. Porter 2
           Born: 14 Jul 1854 1
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         Father: Samuel Smith Porter (      -Aft 1889) 1
         Mother: Mary Ann Smith (      -Aft 1889) 1

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       Marriage: 11 Apr 1883 3

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Wife Belle Stacy ^{2 3}

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         Father: William Stacy (1821-1917) 2 4
         Mother: Elizabeth Strickler (      -      ) 2

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Children

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1 M Earle S. Porter ⁵

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2 M Don S. Porter ⁵

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General Notes: Husband - Moses E. Porter

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He was brought up on a farm at Porter's Gap, in Upper Tyrone township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, attended the common schools of that district until he attained his majority. At the age of twenty-two he went to Moingona, Boone County, Iowa, where he served an apprenticeship of three years in a drug house. In 1880 he returned to Pennsylvania and opened a drug store at Dawson, where he succeeded in building up a good trade.
He was a member of the Senior Order of American Mechanics.

1 John M. Gresham, Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: John M. Gresham & Co., 1889), Pg 374, 470.

2 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 1242.

3 John M. Gresham, Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: John M. Gresham & Co., 1889), Pg 376.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1912), Pg 717.

5 John M. Gresham, Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: John M. Gresham & Co., 1889), Pg 375.