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  A History of Northern Michigan and its People. Vol. II
  Perry Francis Powers, Lewis Publishing Co., - 1912

        [745-746]

        REUBEN G. PORTER, D.D.S. - The standing of every profession is marked
     by the character of the men who represent it, and the reputation of DR.
     REUBEN G. PORTER stands second to none in Petoskey as a successful and
     popular dentist. Excellent technical training as coupled with some twenty
     years' active practice in dental work makes DR. PORTER an adept in his
     chosen field of work. He is a native of Petoskey, where his birth occurred
     on the 23d of May, 1858, and he is a son of ANDREW and MARY (GLENN) PORTER,
     both of whom were born in Pennsylvania, the former in Venango county and
     the latter in Butler county. The father died in February, 1899, at the
     venerable age of eighty-two years, and the mother passed to the life eter-
     nal in June, 1903, at the age of eighty-two years. MR. and MRS. PORTER were
     married in Butler county, Pennsylvania, and they became the parents of four
     children, all of whom are deceased except the immediate subject of this
     review, who was the third in order of birth. ANDREW PORTER was a cabinet-
     maker by trade and for a number of years he was a contractor and builder in
     Pennsylvania, where he erected a number of churches. He came to Michigan in
     1852 and located on the Mission farm in Emmet county, the same having been
     located about one mile south of the village of Petoskey. He was a Presby-
     terian missionary and for a time was in the employ of the government as a
     teacher. During his residence in Michigan he also acted as interpreter for
     the Indians and acted in that capacity on the occasion when REV. JOHN
     RIDPATH first preached to the Indians in the old Mission school house. MR.
     PORTER was identified with mission work for a period of twenty-two years
     and during that time was the popular and efficient incumbent of a number of
     township and county offices. In politics he was a stanch supporter of the
     Republican party after its organization, in 1858, and he was an active
     factor in the local councils of that party.
        DR. PORTER received his rudi-mentary educational training in the
     commission schools of Petoskey and he also studied for a time in West
     Sunbury Academy, Pennsylvania, and took a normal course at Washington.
     Pennsylvania and at the Pennsylvania Dental College at Philadelphia, he
     spent a few months. In the year 1889 he was matriculated as a student in
     Washington University, at St. Louis. Missouri, in the dental department of
     which excellent institution he was graduated as a member of the class of
     1891. duly receiving his well earned degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery,
     taking the first prize as best operator in the class. Immtediately after
     graduation he located at Petoskey, where he rapidly gained prestige as one
     of the most skilled dentists in this section of the state. He controls a
     large and lucrative patronage in this city, where he is universally esteem-
     ed for his splendid citizenship and his fine professional ability. In
     connection with his life work he is a member of the Michigan State Dental
     Society and in politics he is a stanch advocate of the principles and
     policies of the Prohibition party.
        On the 20th of September. 1882, DR. PORTER was united in marriage to
     MISS SARAH JARMAN. whose demise occurred in the year 1895. This union was
     prolific of five children, whose names are here entered in respective order
     of birth,- EDITH. TSEBELLE, ESTHER, HOWARD and LOWRIE. On the 23d of
     December, 1896, DR. PORTER married MISS RETTA WILFORD, who was born and
     reared at Elyria, Ohio, and who is a daughter of SAMUEL WILFORD. DR. and
     MRS. PORTER have one son, WILFORD. In their religious faith DR. PORTER and
     his wife are devout members of the Baptist church, to whose philanthropical
     work they are most liberal contributors.  The Doctor is a man of wide
     experience and broad information and it has been said concerning him that
     his charity knows only the bounds of his opportunities.

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