Word: porter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. William Henry Porter, 65, "systematizing genius" of J. P. Morgan. & Co. and the director of its open market operations; in Brooklyn, N. Y., of heart disease, while walking with his wife. At 25 he was the youngest cashier in a major U. S. bank (Chase National). It was he who stimulated the trade acceptance, or bill, market in the U. S., whereby a merchant with time paper on his hands could easily discount it at a bank. He was taken into Morgan partnership in 1911, simultaneously with Thomas William Lamont...
Engaged. Evelina Porter Gleaves, daughter of Rear Admiral Albert Gleaves (retired); to Albert Morris Cohen, onetime commander...
...exclusive city," Boston. He became a mayor of that city, like his father before him and his grandson later, but writing in his age, he found more meat in his youthful journals than in the official acts of his public career. Sunday, Sept. 16, 1821, for instance: "Dr. Porter preached all day. In the evening my father and myself went as usual to [onetime] President Adams's. There we found J. Q. Adams, and my father had a long discussion with the President and his son upon the hopes and benefits of peace...
...Negro in American Life" reviewed by Caroline J. Porter, dean of Hampton Institute, the famous Virginia negro educational centre...
Hulburd Johnston '29, of Lake Forest, Illinois, was chosen Second Assistant Manager of the University crew, according to an announcement made last night by C. H. Weymer '27, manager of the crew. Wayne Wheeler Neff '29, of Chicago was chosen class crew manager, and Orrin Porter Jackson, of New York City, manager of the 150-pound crews...