[196-344.1] ANDREW WAGEN ER PORTER, } June 29, 1888; s Judge William W. and Mary A. (Hobart) Porter [196-244]; m June 16, 1921, CATHARINE COXE, dau Mr. and Mrs. Henry Brinton Coxe. Res., 400 S. 15th St., Phila., Pa. (1922.)
One child:
Ruth, b Apr. 20, 1922.
Andrew Wagener Porter attended the training camp at Fort Niagara for training officers for the U.S. Army during the World War from May 10 to August 15, 1917, and was then commissioned a captain of infantry and retained as instructor at the 2nd Reserve Officers’ Training Camp at Fort Niagara. He was ordered to Camp Dix and assigned as instructor at the Officers’ Training School, and was then transferred to San Antonio, Texas, to the 309th Cavalry as Captain of Troop ‘E.’’ The 309th Cavalry was divided into the 56th and 57th Field Artillery, and Captain Porter was assigned to Battery E, 56th Field Artillery. He was ordered to the School of Fire at Fort Sill, Okla., completed his course and rejoined his battery at Camp Doniphan, Lawton, Okla. Captain Porter was discharged Dec. 21, 1918, at Camp Doniphan.
Parents’ family: [196-244] Hon. William Wagener Porter and Mary Augusta Hobart