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Title: Andrew O. Porter collection
Dates: 1800-1960
Bulk dates: 1918-1922
Collection Number: mssPortercollection
Collector:
Porter, Andrew O.
Extent:
Approximately 576 items in 7 boxes.
Repository:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
Manuscripts Department
The Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2203
Fax: (626) 449-5720
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
Abstract: This collection primarily consists of Lura Whitlock Porter's research concerning her family history.
Language of Material: The records are in English.
Collection is open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department. For more information,
please go to following
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The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material,
nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and
obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher.
Andrew O. Porter collection, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Gift from Mrs. Andrew O. Porter, 1980.
Don Carlos Porter was the son of Andrew O. and Anna Porter. From 1897 to about 1904 he was City Attorney for South Pasadena.
He founded a law partnership with Charles T. Sutton under the name Porter and Sutton. It became one of the oldest law firms
in Los Angeles. Don, as he was known in later life, was one of the youngest men that the First Methodist Church of Pasadena
ever had as a Trustee. He retained his position there until shortly before his death at the age of 88 in 1959. He was active
in the Pasadena Pioneer Association and the Pasadena Historical Society. Don married Lura Whitlock, whom he had met at the
University of Southern California. After her death he married her sister, Maud.
Lura Whitlock Porter was the wife of Don Carlos Porter. Mrs. Porter was the daughter of the late B.C. Whitlock, who came to
Los Angeles, California from Illinois in 1884. In 1902, she married Don Carlos Porter and resided at the family home on Orange
Grove Avenue in South Pasadena. The couple had one son: Andrew O. Porter. She was a graduate of the University of Southern
California and of Stanford University. She was interested in work among orphan children, and was on the board of managers
of both the Children Training Society and the Boys and Girls Aid Society. She was the secretary of the Pasadena Garden Club,
and a member of the First Methodist Church.
Andrew O. Porter, the second was born in 1907, the son of Don Carlos and Lura Whitlock Porter. After earning his L.L.B. at
Harvard Law School, he was admitted to the bar and practiced in association with his father for ten years. In 1938, Andrew
Porter was elected to the City Council of South Pasadena and was appointed Mayor two years later being one of the youngest
in the country. He resigned to enter the Navy in 1943. He married Louise H. Stone, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Willard J. Stone
of Pasadena. They had three sons: Thomas, John, and Carlos Porter.
This collection primarily consists of Lura Whitlock Porter's research concerning her family history. The families include:
Copeland, Green, Hogins, Percival, Pool, Porter, Tousey, and Whitlock. There are some earlier letters that belonged to Porter's
family and they relate to farm, religious, and social life in Illinois. There are also some oversize letters found in boxes
4 and 5. The bulk of the photographs are identified, but they are not arranged in any particular order. Boxes 4 and 5 also
contain hundreds of pages of genealogical notes related to the Green, Percival, Tousey, Pool, Porter, and Whitlock family.
Items of interest are letters from the American Civil War written by James H. Whitlock and William C. Pool. There are two
letters from Whitlock written in 1861 that discuss the secession crisis with gusto; the third dated 1898 describes his civil
war service, probably for a memoir. There are 27 civil war letters written by William C. Pool, dating from 1861 to July 1865.
These letters describe the siege of Vicksburg and the Red River Campaign. There are 6 post-war letters and a note for what
appears to be a memoir or a regimental history.
Additional material were added after Conservation Department approved them for use. These items include three Bibles, two
books, and a scrapbook.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically.
Burkham, Caroline T.
Gibbons, Waitie Grover
Porter, Andrew O.
Porter, Lura Whitlock
Porter, William C.
Tatman, Lottie E.
Tousey, Omir
Varney, Katherine Porter
Whitlock, James G.
United States. Army. California Infantry Regiment
Genealogy
Soldiers--California--Correspondence
Wheat farmers
Illinois--Religious life and customs
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives
United States--Description and travel
Diaries
Genealogies (histories)
Letters (correspondence)
Photographs