Philo PORTER, farmer, Sec. 21; P. O. Clinton; born in Huron Co., Ohio, New London Township, Feb. 28, 1831; son of Philo T. Porter; he was one of the pioneers in that county; was a soldier in the Black Hawk war and an honorable and respected man; his [grand]father was killed and scalped by the Indians in Maumee; Mr. Philo T. Porter died May 30, 1876, and was buried at Clinton; he was the father of ten children; one of them, Webster, was shot before Atlanta, was color-bearer of the 16th Wis. Regt.; three brothers and sisters are now in Turtle and one brother in Kansas; the family moved to Wisconsin, April 6, 1851, and settled on 440 acres; Philo Porter now has 100 acres under fine cultivation; pays particular attention to raising stock; is in comfortable circumstances; has been on the School Board many terms and is now Town Treasurer. He married, Sept. 20. 1855, Jane Lutink, a native of Holland; have had three children— Mary S., born July 19, 1856 ; Alfred T., Aug. 2, 1860 and died Oct, 1, 1873 ; Minnie, born May 26, 1866.