OTHER PLACES TO FIND PORTER INFORMATION:
Colorado State Penitentiary Index 1871 - 1973
On this page: http://www.anet-chi.com/~jeffb/dupagewb/marrpn.htm you will find 7 Porters who married in DuPage Co., IL, between 20 June, 1839- 28 November 1861.
If you go here: http://www.sos.state.il.us/depts/archives/marriage.html and click on "Search The Statewide Marriage Index now" then search by groom's and/or bride's surname. TONS of Porters!
The Library of Congress Memory collection has book on-line which may prove of some help to those of us looking for MI, WI & MN Porters. Go to: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/umhtml/umhome.html You can search on Porter, or any other name you're looking for. When Marsha Wilcox put in Porter, she got 200 references!
There is a short biography of Oliver C. Porter, former mayor of Texarkana, TX at the following site: ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ar/miller/biography/porteroc.txt