. Genealogical and personal history of Fayette county, Pennsylvania. tion of being theoldest conductor in the companys is well known in his home city and to thetraveling public and is held in universalesteem. He has had many thrilling experi-ences in his long career on the rail, nothaving gained his title of veteran witlioutexperiencing every sensation that falls to thelot of the modern railroad man. He is aDemocrat and a Mason. He married. April 15. 1874, Caroline Mc-Beth, born in Normalville, Pennsylvania,daughter of John A. and Anna (Nickle) Mc-Bcth, and granddaughter of George Ni
. Genealogical and personal history of Fayette county, Pennsylvania. tion of being theoldest conductor in the companys is well known in his home city and to thetraveling public and is held in universalesteem. He has had many thrilling experi-ences in his long career on the rail, nothaving gained his title of veteran witlioutexperiencing every sensation that falls to thelot of the modern railroad man. He is aDemocrat and a Mason. He married. April 15. 1874, Caroline Mc-Beth, born in Normalville, Pennsylvania,daughter of John A. and Anna (Nickle) Mc-Bcth, and granddaughter of George : i. Anna Mae, born May 25, 1875,died February 16. 1902: married F. T. Evans,of Connellsville. 2. J. Donald, born March20, 1877; now engaged in the real estate andinsurance business in Connellsville; marriedMyrtle I\Iay Pfeifer. 3. Roy died in in-fancy, April 3, 1878. 4. Ralph Ewing. bornApril 28. 1879; married Olive Boyd, April 15,1907. 5. Elmer Reed, born September 9,1885. 6. Imogene A., born July 10, 1899. born September 18. FAYETTE COUNTY 417 There are bany differentPORTER branches of the Potter familyin Fayette county tracing toEnglish and Irish progenitors, (^ne branchentered the county from the south, another?from New York state and still another fromIndiana. The larger branch is the southernfamily, of which Phineas Porter is recordedas being overseer of the poor of Dunbartownsiiip in 1803. (I) Phineas Porter was born in MarylandHe was a tanner. He came to Fayettecounty about the year 1800 and established atannery in Dunbar township. All the salt usedin the tanning process had to be carried overthe mountains on horseback, the tannedleather being sent to market in the sameway until the opening of the National Pikeabout 1822. He married Susan McNutt,who was of Irish descent, the Porters beingScotch-Irish. Children: i. Phineas, marriedHannah Bunker and moved to Appamoosecounty, Iowa, where he engaged in John, married Lowry an
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