M E M O I R E D WAR D G R I F F I N P O RT E R SAMUEL SWETT GREEN M E M O I R E D WAR D G R I F F I N P O R T E R SAMUEL SWETT GREEN R E P R I N T E D F R O M TH E PUB LI CATI ON S O F t e ( Colonial 5 0m m of masfiacbusetts 'O L 'I . C AM B R I D G E 'O H N W I LSO N AN D S O N Huihm itg iBtzss 1 9 0 1 M E M O I R O F TH E D AR D RI F FI N P OR TER RE '. E W G , SAMUEL SWETT GREEN . D AR D R I F F I N OR TE R i n 24 E W G P was born Boston, January , 1 837 R . He was the son of oyal Loomis Porter, editor and pro ri e tor wh i c h p of the Boston Traveller, a newspaper he started in 1 2 di n 8 5 . R e o Mr . oyal Port r ed in Charlest , South Carolina , where 1 844 ’ he had gone for the benefit of his health , in . Edward Porter s mother was Sarah Ann Pratt, who was born in Charlestown , Mas , s a c h u se tts 1 81 2 . , in , and is still living 1 623 hn W B In , Jo Porter came from the est of England to ly m c . uth, in the Colony of that name Branches of the family after i n t wards settled Farming on and Hartford , Connecticut, and in . w Danvers and Hadley, Massachusetts Ed ard Porter was de scended, in the sixth generation , from the first settler in East Hartford, Connecticut. A son of the first settler there was James ’ 2 . ' 1 7 0 1 745 . Porter, born in His son , James , was born in ames s 1 776 son, Daniel , was born in East Hartford in , but after the war R moved to Williamstown , Massachusetts . He had a son , oyal ' 1 801 Loomis , born in ermont in , who was the father of Edward Griffin Porter . R Mr oyal Porter was an only son . He graduated at Williams College in 1 823 and taught school a year or two in New 'ork State before removing to Boston . He is said to ha ve edited the Traveller with signal ability and success , until he died . He was buried near his father in the old cemetery at Willia m stown . Edward Porter lived in Boston until he was seven years old ; us his father then moved to Canton , Massach etts, but, dying within B . a a year, the family returned to oston Mrs Porter, left widow 4 r with three child en , Frank , Edward , and William, soon married Nathan Carruth, a Boston merchant . The family lived in Hancock Street for about two years and then moved to Dorchester, Massa h h a d c u s e tts . u , where Mr Carr th built a large house in the gothic style , on an elevated spot, regarded as one of the most eligible in the vicinity of Boston . Edward Porter always spoke warmly of ' ' the never failing kindness of his step father . After attending several private and public schools , Porter, in 1 851 i , entered Phillips Academy, Andover, wh ch was then under m . the charge of the celebrated educator, Sa uel Harvey Taylor He remained in the Academy du ring the usual course of prepara m 1 854 tion for college . He graduated in the su mer of , after pro no u nc i n g an oration on the Genius of Labor, and left school with high hopes and a stout heart to enter upon college life . 1 853 In January , , Porter united, by public profession of faith , with the Second Church in Dorchester, then under the pastoral R . e v . care of the James H Means . ’ It had always been Porter s wish and that of his friends that he 1 854 should go to college . In , he was admitted to Williams College , after examination . It was by his own choice rather than d r that of his frien s , who preferred he should go to Ha vard College , that he went to Williams . He soon became disappointed with the a f educational advant ges o fered there and with his surroundings , 1 855 and in the autumn of , too late to have his name appear in d t the first e ition of the Ca alogue for that year, he transferred his connection to Harvard College . While at Williams College he joined the Alpha Delta Phi Society . In Cambridge he had only s h i m w a few intimate friend , but those who knew well were armly i attached to him and respected him highly . He did not atta n to a high rank in his Class , very likely did not seek it, but was generally regarded as industrious, thoroughly in earnest, a man of considerable attainments and good scholarsh ip . The Class of 1 85 8 in Harvard College does not stand out con s pi c u ou s by reason of a large number of its members having b e come famous . Still , it is pleasant to remark that nearly every b e member has done well while he lived, and many members have come eminent . Samuel Pasco was for several years a United t States Sena or from Florida , and Frederic George Bromberg , ill r W iam Elliot, and the late William Fitzhugh Lee have re p e 5 d 'i r sented in Congress istricts in Alabama , South Carolina, and th e m ginia , respectively . Locally, na es of Winslow Warren and Henry Pickering Walcott will be recognized as belonging to men who have won distinction in public life in Massachusetts . The t l . lat er has a so been , for several years , a Fellow of Harvard College w Among the teachers are Benjamin Graves Bro n , Professor of a Mathematics in Tufts College , the lately deceased Br dbury Long w w fello Cilley, and George Albert Went orth , for many years r instructors in the Phillips Exeter Academy, the veteran Geo ge Washington Copp Noble of Boston , Eugene Frederick Bliss of Cincinnati , Ohio , and Joseph Alden Shaw of the Highland Mili tary Academy, Worcester, Massachusetts . Of the physicians , the n R ames are well known of John Homans , obert Thaxter Edes , . R John Gray Park , and George Ebenezer Francis The everend ' ’ Henry Wilder Foote , Minister of ing s Chapel , Boston, was a member of the Class ; and among those m embers who became w u Ha lawyers are Judge Alfred Stedman Hart ell of Honol lu, wa ii a n M a ss a c h u Islands , Judge William Henry Fox of Taunton , setts , and James Clarke Davis , of Boston . Of the representatives of the Class in business may be mentioned John Lowell Gard ner, recently deceased, Hersey Bradford Goodwin , and the two — ' B Tobeys , Gerard Curtis and Horace Pratt . Well known oston families were represented by Fisher Ames , Josiah Bradlee , Louis Crowni nsh i e l d Cabot, Benjamin William , Ozias Goodwin, Hollis B ro m fi e l d . Hunnewell , and Edward Mason George Edward Pond, who has lately died , was always an editor or editorial writer, and is particularly remembered by his connection with the Army and v h e v Na y Journal during t Ci il War . The writer of this Memoir has helped to give completeness to the list of occupations in the ’ Class by nearly thirty years service as a librarian . Several members of the Class of 1 858 have shown a decid ed h interest in American istory , and Porter was prominent among hi s them . The most eminent of these is Henry Adams , known to classmates by the name of Henry Brooks Adams , by which name he was designated in the catalogue thr oughout his college course . ’ ' George Dexter, Foote , John Charles Phillips (Porter s room mate R To a n in the Senior year) , Porter, obert Noxon pp , Walcott, and Warren have been or are Resident Members of the Massachusetts Historical Society . Adams , Bliss , Dexter , Foote , Francis , Green , 6 To a n v Porter, and pp are the li ing and deceased members of the Class who have represented it in the American Anti'uarian Society . Many members of the Class have belonged to other historical ffi societies and served as o cers in them , to say nothing of those 1 who are past or present members of this Society . The Class lost some of its most promising members by early ' death , among them William Gibbons of New ork City . He was m with the Class for a few months as a Sopho ore , but died in Cambridge in that year . The most serious losses , however, came th e through the Civil War . The time of the graduation of Class was such that many members served as soldiers . Five lost their v li es , and among them were such men of promise as James Jackson f n Lowell , Henry Lyman Patten, and Thomas Je ferso Spurr . The s Cla s had representatives in both armies. A story is told of a m eeting, during the war, of William Fitzhugh Lee , a son of Gen R . s . eral obert E Lee , and Nichola Longworth Anderson They G U were enerals in the Confederate and nion armies , respectively, and found themselves , one night, on opposite sides of a river .