Hon. William Wagener Porter and Mary Augusta Hobart [196-244]

[196-244] HON. WILLIAM WAGENER PORTER, b May 5, 1856; s Hon. William A. and Emma (Wagener) Porter [196-108]; m Apr. 27, 1882, MARY AUGUSTA HOBART, b Feb. 22, 1862; dau Charles H. Hobart, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Res., 135 8. 18th St., Phila., Pa.

Children (8):

“Lawyer, born in Phila., May 5, 1856, son of William A. Porter, judge of the Supreme Court of Pa., and Court of Ala. Claims, Washington. His grandfather was David Rittenhouse Porter, twice governor of Pa.; his great grandfather was Gen. Andrew Porter, chief of engineers on the staff of Washington during the Revolution. He was educated in private schools in Phila., was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania as A.B. in 1875 and A.M. in 1878. He read Jaw with his father, Hon. William A. Porter, and was admitted to the bar in 1877. He practiced his profession in Phila. until 1897 when he was appointed Judge of the Superior Court of Pa., and was subsequently elected to a full term, but resigned in order to return to the practice of law in 1903. Judge Porter is the author of a legal text book on ‘Bills of Lading,’ and several brochures, and is head of the law firm of Porter, Foulkrod & Mc- Cullough. He is a member of the Society of the Cincinnati, Sons of the Revolution, the Union League of Phila., and other social and charitable institutions. He was the orator at the unveiling of the great We eee Monument in Phila.; an occasion in which Pres. McKinley also participated.” [Who's Who in Pa.

Judge Porter is the originator of the ‘‘Society of the Descendants of the Schwenkfeldian Exiles” and has served as first Vice-president since its organization.