Sacramento County
Biographies
ROBERT PORTER
ROBERT PORTER.--Among the well-known
native sons of Sacramento County
is Robert Porter, who has long been successfully engaged in agricultural
pursuits; he is now the proprietor of the Point Lookout Ranch, consisting of
twenty acres, located eighteen miles northeast of Sacramento
and three miles southeast of Roseville. He was born on his father’s ranch in 1875, a
son of Henry S. and Amelia (Brown) Porter, both natives of Ireland
and both now deceased. Robert Porter had
the advantage of a good education in the public schools of Sacramento
County and from early manhood was
associated with his father in ranching.
At twenty years of age he became superintendent for Hall, Luhrs & Company on their extensive ranch located at Orangevale,
and was occupied until 1906 in that capacity.
Then he returned to the home ranch to be with his parents, remaining
there until 1911, when the parents removed to the E. C. Bedell
ranch near Roseville, where they
made their home until they passed away.
On
October 23, 1911, Mr. Porter was married to Miss Maude A. Chapman, a graduate
of Wesley Hospital. Mrs. Porter passed away in 1918, and on June
4, 1919, Mr. Porter was married to Miss Pearl Simpson, a graduate nurse of White
Hospital in Sacramento. Mrs. Porter is a daughter of the late Dr.
William Simpson, a prominent physician and surgeon. She was born in Florida
and grew to young womanhood there. She
came West in 1911, and was graduated from White’s Hospital in 1916. Mrs. Porter specializes in surgical cases,
and is very successful in her profession.
She is an active member of the Rose Chapter of the Eastern Star, at Roseville. Mr. Porter is past president of Granite
Parlor No. 83, N. S. G. W., in Folsom City, and is also a member of the local
farm bureau. The ranch home of Mr. And
Mrs. Porter is highly improved with all modern equipment, and is highly
productive.
Transcribed
by Priscilla J. Delventhal.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History
of Sacramento County, California With Biographical
Sketches, Page 590. Historic Record
Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 P. J. Delventhal.