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Porter

Porter - a person who carries objects
Porter - the alcoholic drink
Porter - one of the minor orders of the Roman Catholic ministry / a doorkeeper or gatekeeper
Porter - the railroad occupation. The Pullman Palace Car Company in the United States hired black men as Pullman Porters
Porter - member of staff in many of the colleges of the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford
H. K. Porter, Inc was a manufacturer of small railroad locomotives.

Places named Porter in the United States of America:
- Porter, Indiana
- Porter, Maine
- Porter, Minnesota
- Porter, New York
- Porter, Oklahoma
- Porter, Texas
- Porter, Wisconsin
- Porter County, Indiana
- Porter Township, Michigan (three places)
- Porter Township, Pennsylvania (seven places)

(Note also: Porter Heights, Texas and Malone-Porter, Washington.)

People whose surname is or was Porter include
- Cole Porter, Composer
- Eleanor H. Porter, author of children's literature
- Eliot Porter , Historian of arts
- Katherine Anne Porter, Writer
- Henry Kirke Porter, Industrialist
- Michael Porter, Economist
- Roy Porter, Historian of medicine
- Russell W. Porter, Co-founder of the Amateur Telescope Makers movement

Last updated: 10-18-2005 06:34:13

Last updated: 01-04-2007 01:18:57

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