. Leslie's history of the greater New York . ew York Clearing lluuse Asso-ciation, serYinf^- the maximum term in this office. He also servedtwo terms, from 1895 to 1807, as Treasurer of the American BankiniiAssociation. He is Treasurer ofseveral charitable institutions, is atrustee of several lar^te estates, andis a member of the New YorkCiiamber of (ommerce, the City,New York Athletic, Trans]iorta-tion, Republican, Atlantic Vachi,and Ivy clubs, the New EnglandSociety, and the American Geo-•iraphical Society. Born in Middle-bury, Vt., January 3, 18()1, he is theson of William Trowbridge Porter
. Leslie's history of the greater New York . ew York Clearing lluuse Asso-ciation, serYinf^- the maximum term in this office. He also servedtwo terms, from 1895 to 1807, as Treasurer of the American BankiniiAssociation. He is Treasurer ofseveral charitable institutions, is atrustee of several lar^te estates, andis a member of the New YorkCiiamber of (ommerce, the City,New York Athletic, Trans]iorta-tion, Republican, Atlantic Vachi,and Ivy clubs, the New EnglandSociety, and the American Geo-•iraphical Society. Born in Middle-bury, Vt., January 3, 18()1, he is theson of William Trowbridge Porterand Martha Sampson, of colonialNew England ancestry on botlisides. He was educated in a pri-vate school an<l an aca(hiny. Iteganhis business career in New YorkCity in the office of the JMrsident ofthe Atlanta and (liailotte Air LineRailway Company, an<l subse- (jui ntly entered the Fifth Avenue Bank. He married, in 1887, Esther,daughter of James Jackson, of New York City, and has a son—JamesJackson Porter, and a daugiiter— WILMAM IIKNRY PORTER. WILSON. IHCHAKl) head of the notable New York bankinghouse of E. T. Wilson ^: Company, is of an old Georgia family, wasborn in that State, became Commissary-Geneial in tiie ConfederateArmy dunng the Civil War. and at the close of that struggle re-moved to this city and entered upon his successful financial is President of the East River Gas Company, of Long Island City,is a trustee of the Manhattan Trust Company, and is a director of thel^)urth National Bank, the Union Trust Company, the United StatesCasualty Company, the Hudson Building, the New York and EastRiver Gas Company, the American Cotton Oil Company, the BerthaMineral Company, the Mathieson Alkali Works, the Western UnionBeef Company, the Yonkers Railroad, the Denver and Rio GrandeRailroad Company, and the Rio Grande Southern Railroad. He is amember of the Union. Metropolitan, and Manhattan clubs, the Down-town Association, and the Southern Soci
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