The full biographical sketch as printed in 1900, transcribed from the public-domain book. Spelling and wording are the original author’s; a few scanning errors may remain.
CHARLES W. PORTER. This gentleman stands in a foremost place among the public officials of La Moure county. North Dakota. He has twice been called upon to serve as county treasurer, and is a man of practical business ability, and enjoys the confidence of the people among whom he has chosen to reside since the early days of the settle- ment of North Dakota.
Mr. Porter was born on a farm in McHenry county, Illinois, March 4, 1858, and was the second in a family of six children, three sons and two daughters, five of whom are now living. His father, Thomas W. Porter, was born in England, and was one of the early settlers of jMcHenry county, Illi- nois, where he was married to Miss Julia Roper, who was also a native of England.
Our subject was educated in the district school near his home and assisted on his father's farm un- til 1880, in which year he went to North Dakota, then a territory, and soon afterward returned to Illi- nois. He again went to Dakota in 1881 and settled in La Moure county and filed claim to the southeast quarter of section 18, township 136, range 63, since which time he has followed farming, and has met with eminent success. He is now the possessor of one and a half sections of land and he has added valuable imi^rovements to his property.
Mr. Porter returned to his home in Illinois in 1883, and while there he was married to Miss Mary Tanner, a native of Illinois, who was born in 1857. ^Ir. and Mrs. Porter have been the parents of three
children, as follows: Emma, Grace and Harvey. Mr. Porter was elected county treasurer in 1884, and served two years, and in September, 1898, he was ap- pointed to tiie same position to fill an unexpired term, and in November of that year he was elected to that office, which he at present holds. He is an efficient officer and commands the respect and esteem of the people. During territorial times he was appointed by Governor Ordway as a member of the first board of county commissioners. Politically he is a Repub- lican and is a man who keeps pace with the times. He holds membership in the Ancient Order of Unit- ed Workmen and Modern Woodmen of America. He and familv attend the Presbvterian church.
Source: Compendium of History and Biography of North Dakota (1900. See the original pages at the Internet Archive.
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