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Nathaniel Porter November 11, 1853 - August 3, 1910 Warren-Butler County KyArchives Biography

Author: W.H. Perrin, J.H. Battle, G.C. Kniffin

NAT A. PORTER, commonwealth's attorney of the Fifth Kentucky District, is a 
native of Butler County, KY.  He was born in 1853; is son of Rev. N. And Sarah 
(Helm) Porter, and is of Scotch origin.  The father of Mr. Porter was born in 
Prince Edward County, VA, in 1798, but in 1800 immigrated with his partents to 
Kentucky, and after spending almost half a century as a minister of the 
Cumberland Presbyterian Church, died in 1873.  He was a prominent minister, and 
a useful and honorable man.  The Porter family is authoritatively traced to 
Virginia.  Mrs. Sarah (Helm) Porter was born in Butler County, KY in 1819, and 
died in 1874.  Nat A. Porter was educated at the private schools of his native 
county until he was fifteen years of age.  In 1872 he went to Logan County and 
entered the Auburn High School, from which he graduated in 1875.  After his 
graduation he was a teacher for two years in the same school. Subsequently he 
turned his attention to agriculture for some time.  In 1878 he entered the law 
department of the Cumberland University in Wilson County, Tenn.  There he 
graduated in 1879, and then came to Bowling Green, KY and began the practice of 
law.  On coming to this city he formed a partnership in the law practice with 
the late Capt. John M. Porter, who was one of the leading lawyers of the Warren 
County bar.  Mr. N.A.Porter is a Democrat, and in 1884 he elected to fill out 
the unexpired term of his brother as commonwealth's attorney of this district, 
and was, on the 28th of October, nominated for re-election to the office of 
commonwealth's attorney without opposition for a term of six years.  He is a 
man of merit and much respected.

Submitted by: Bob Law http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00004.html#0000876



Additional Comments:
This biography appeared in "Kentucky a History of the State" the county of 
Warren. The father of N.A.Porter was born in Prince Edward County VA Feb. 8, 
1797, and died October 9, 1871 in Butler County KY. Sarah Helm was born in 
Butler County January 24, 1818, and died June 6, 1872. N.A. Porter never 
married.

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