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Nathaniel Porter 1853 - 1910
Warren-Caldwell County KyArchives Biography

Author: W. H. Perrin in History of Kentucky

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 parents 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 was 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 repected.

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