Charles Porter

• General Notes
  • (VII) Charles Porter, eldest surviving son of Captain Edgar Augustus and Mary (Charlot) Brett, was born in Albany, New York, February 8, 1873. He was educated in the city schools, and for the first two years of his business life was with the Harder Knitting Company, of Hudson, New York. Leaving there, he was for the next ten years with the leading dry goods house of John G. G. Myers in Albany. In 1899 he formed a connection with the banking house of Spencer Trask & Company, continuing until the present date (1910) as their managing bookkeeper. He is a Republican, and through the military service of his ancestors gained admission to the Sons of the Revolution. He served five years in Company B, Tenth Battalion, New York National Guard, located at Albany, and is a member of "The Old Guard" of that company; also of the Capital City Benefit Association of Albany. His religious affiliation is with the First Dutch Reformed Church of Albany, of which he was a deacon for two years and for a term of four years treasurer of the Sunday school. He married, August 28, 1895, Grace, daughter of James and Adaline (Rabson) Herrington, and has a daughter, Edna May, born in Albany, April 14, 1900, died August 25, 1900, also one son who died at birth.
    
    

Details of Charles' family with Grace Herrington