Robert Porter and Jemima Read

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Husband Robert Porter ^{1 2}

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           Born: 25 Nov 1812 or 1815 - County Tyrone, Ireland 2 3
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           Died: May 1898 - Pike Twp, Clearfield Co, PA 2
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         Father: [Father] Porter (      -      )
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       Marriage: 6 Jul 1844 - Lawrence Twp, Clearfield Co, PA 2

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Wife Jemima Read ^{2 4}

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           Born: 24 Mar 1823 - Lawrence Twp, Clearfield Co, PA 4
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           Died: Jan 1903 2
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         Father: John Ross Read (1789-1858/1861) 4 5 6
         Mother: Mary "Polly" Reed (1793-1873) 4 6 7

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Children

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1 F Elizabeth Porter ³

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         Spouse: Ross McPherson (      -Aft 1898) 3

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2 F Emma Porter ³

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         Spouse: Alexander Holden (      -      ) 3

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3 M William A. Porter ³

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           Born: 5 Mar 1851 - Lawrence Twp, Clearfield Co, PA 3
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         Spouse: Lizzie Liddell (      -      ) 3
           Marr: 1883 - Sandy Twp, Clearfield Co, PA 3

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4 M Miles Porter ³

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5 M Frank Porter ³

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6 M James Porter ³

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7 F Florence Porter ³

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8 M John Porter ³

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9 F Helen Porter ³

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General Notes: Husband - Robert Porter

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He left his old home in Ireland at the age of eighteen years. On coming to Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, he settled in Lawrence township, and engaged in lumbering and rafting on the Susquehanna river.

He was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, in 1815, and came to America in 1835. After a few months spent in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he came to Lawrence township, Clearfield County, where he found employment as a farmer in the summers and as a lumberman in the winters. After his marriage, he bought 125 acres of land in Lawrence township, three and one-half miles south of Clearfield. For five years prior to that he had rented land and when he moved from the farm in Lawrence township he bought and settled on a farm of 150 acres in Pike township, which was later owned by his son, Miles R. Porter. He came there in 1873 and continued to live on this farm until his death. He cleared 100 acres of his first farm. The later one was already cleared when he purchased it.
He was a Democrat in politics and served as school director and road supervisor. He and his wife were members of the Presbyterian church. Of their eleven children, nine reached adult age.

1 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 757, 904.

2 Roland D. Swoope, Jr., 20th Century History of Clearfield County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1911), Pg 578.

3 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 757.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 811.

5 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 647, 903.

6 Carl Ross McKenrick, My Family and Antecedents (Baltimore, MD: Self-published, 1949), Pg 9.

7 Lewis Cass Aldrich, History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), Pg 84.